May 30, 2017
9:45 a.m.
Thought I would share this story. I have been teaching my son to edit existing Python programs (rather than starting from scratch). He bought a "Farm Expert 2017" - a complex 'FarmVille" type program. He discovered to his delight that it was written in Python and was able to edit the amount of money in his "account" to serval trillion dollars - now his farm looks like the Dallas Ranch of the 1980's. Silly things like this can motivate a boy far more than any other more logical argument as to why coding is a beneficial skill to develop. So this weekend it was learning to soldier as he now has all sorts of ideas to automate his room using his Rpi which he got for his birthday last week. -- Regards Steve Eilertsen