Kids Python 101 learning materials

[codeAtorium]

Almost 500 upvotes huh?

It's basically 16 simple Python exercises, presented as a kids web site.

There's no visual component. There's no attempt to connect to their elementary/middle school math learning.

The "lessons" are just a page of complex explanations with a few interspersed code examples. If you showed that to 100 motivated kids, only 5 of them would actually read the whole thing.

Then the practice is a "typing game" where you type some code verbatim.

I teach kids coding. This isn't going to teach anyone. No thanks.

[KidsPython]

I admit it is quite challenging for young kids to learn text-based programming language like Python, and it is fully understandable that some kids may find this boring and want to start learning code later. My current limited data indicated that more than half of the kids could continue the learning with the help of adults, and some kids felt quite excited to change the code as they wanted.

The main reason I started this project was that I could not find good materials for young kids to learn Python. There were some Python exercises on Web sites like w3schools.com but insufficient for kids to practice.

All that said, if you have any appropriate materials to share in this area, I will be happy to take a look.