<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Jaysinh Shukla <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaysinhp@gmail.com" target="_blank">jaysinhp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sunday 02 October 2016 05:09 PM, vijay kumar wrote:<br>
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Hi All,<br>
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During PyCon India 2016 open space, we discussed about conducting workshops for school students.<br>
Teaching school students might be a bit challenging as they have minimal knowledge on programming. Real time and visual results will excite them to learn programming language and try things on their own.<br>
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We can conduct python workshops with the help of low cost single board computers like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ExpEYES or something similar to it which will be helpful in teaching and also make the students understand.<br>
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Since the cost of these single board computers are less, its affordable for students to buy on their own to pursue it further.<br>
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I would request everyone to share your thoughts on the same and help in building the workshop topics and content for school students.<br></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div>I love the idea. Basic Mathematical computations can be good way to start. Probably starting from using python as a calculator and then maybe using a library to create some simple geometrical shapes . Eventually going on to solving geometry problems from their text books.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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Thanks,<br>
Vijay<br>
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Respected Community,<br>
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I believe the idea of teaching school students is great. R.Pi is chip and mostly available in India, but, we should also consider the option of BBC Micro bit (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4hVG2Br1W1LKCmw8nSm9WnQ/the-bbc-micro-bit" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programm<wbr>es/articles/4hVG2Br1W1LKCmw8nS<wbr>m9WnQ/the-bbc-micro-bit</a>). Though it is not available in India, we can request the Government of India to help us in this.<br>
On the other side I believe we can also plan for the specially designed tutorials for kids using [turtle module](<a href="https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/turtle.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.python.or<wbr>g/3.6/library/turtle.html</a>) of Python.<br>
Looking forward for views of the community. Many Thanks!<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div>Regards</div><div class="gmail_extra">Sanad</div></div>