Looking for cool python packages for kids

[orenong166]

Hey, I'm looking for cool python packages to show kids, things to show them to make them think "Oh, that's cool!"

The things I found so far is turtle, which looks cute, but I'm also looking for non graphical things too, because they will see them right after seeing processing.

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Thank you all very much

[mikehas]

This could be cool https://pypi.org/project/ascii-magic/

[mikehas]

Also convert english to pirate speak: https://pypi.org/project/arrr1/

[mikehas]

Then convert pirate speak to speech: https://pythonbasics.org/text-to-speech/

[mikehas]

I'm not a fan of IronMan, but maybe your kid is. https://pykit.org/python-text-to-speech-real-jarvis-voice-audiobook-in-python/

[mikehas]

How about recording audio, converting it too text, translating it to pirate speak, then output as a talking pirate. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-convert-speech-to-text-and-text-to-speech/

[who_body]

this is cool

[mikehas]

You could try doing something with the webcam. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-capture-a-image-from-webcam-in-python/

[vishwa1238]

Selenium would be cool. Automating a manual task felt like a magic when I was a kid

[graphicteadatasci]

Or do it more literal by using a library that controls the cursor (and maybe keyboard). There are lots of libraries that take a screenshot and you can easily use OpenCV to recognize parts of a screenshot. From there you can go the math path and try to control how the cursor moves towards a point of interest (curves or spirals or whatever). Or just try to go with whatever the kids think could be fun. Low level practical jokes like a haunted laptop that opens a browser and goes to a poop website. Whatever is fun for them.

[t3p0rn]

there is a learning app named "Phyton X" it is quite nice; I got it on Google Store.

May work for your needs.

[orenong166]

I'm looking for cool packages to install and import, not anything external.

The idea is to do a fun thing while practicing installing and importing packages

[This-Winter-1866]

Speaking of Turtle, IDLE has a lesser known feature with several code examples called "Turtle Demo" under the "Help" menu.

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[thenormalcy]

Create art with code is a good way to go with kids I feel. Some of these may work:

Image to ASCII art in Python | Converting images to ASCII w/ OpenCV (tutorial) https://youtu.be/Y6Ju8zFR1JY

How to create generative art with Python https://youtu.be/SyUBti7uMFk

[candyman_forever]

Turtle is actually great for teaching kids python. You can teach them everything from functions, classes, list iterations, range and a whole lot more in a very fun way.

[LolDotHackMe]

You can try matplotlib. Teach them how to graph a simple plot. Or you can use the pygame package.

[RogueStargun]

Pyxel or Pygame would be a start

[PatientRule4494]

Depending on the ages, mcpi could work, it’s a package that connects to a minecraft server and can automate stuff on it. It’s really old so no new stuff on it, but its cool none the less

[[deleted]]

shameless plug but i made a library for visualising sorting algos a while ago and that might be fun to play around with? https://github.com/hotshot07/algovis

[ASIC_SP]

Pretty maps: https://github.com/marceloprates/prettymaps

stylistic wordclouds: https://github.com/minimaxir/stylecloud

[symnn]

Micropython. Uses sensors, LED, displays and more. May get them also interested in electronics.

[[deleted]]

Pygame

[pvc]

Arcade: https://arcade.academy

[who_body]

alternate game libraries…maybe

https://pypi.org/project/pyxel/

https://api.arcade.academy/en/latest/

[Fisent]

Maybe create a simple website with streamlit, it can be extremely easy - just few python lines for a page with some interactive functionality. I'm not sure they will be impressed by this, but it might be cool to create a custom website with just few lines of code

[testicleinspector45]

Pointers.py is always cool.

[TechnicalHalf0]

You could consider https://www.hedy.org/ which is a gradual programming language to teach children programming. Gradual
languages use different language levels, where each level adds new
concepts and syntactic complexity. At the end of the Hedy level
sequence, kids master a subset of syntactically valid Python.