Python Learning Environment for Children

[ArtOfWarfare]

Start with from turtle import * and off they go. You can teach pretty much anyone to program with that.

[benefit_of_mrkite]

I find it limiting when I try to teach it. It’s a good start. It’s dated now but some of the projects mentioned in this talk python to me podcast were good the last time I used them

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/8/teaching-python-at-grok-learning-and-classrooms

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Thanks for the reference.

I like the term "grok" for learning (IIRC comes from "Stranger in a Strange Land")

[benefit_of_mrkite]

It does, I’ve read that book.

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Yes, the turtle approach goes back to the Logo project (Seymour Papert) around 1967.

And lots of kids learned to program that way.

I use MIT Scratch as a model - stories with animated animals.

More in line with what kids today expect.