On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Steve Eilertsen <steve.eilertsen@gmail.com> wrote: 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.
Wait til he finds out his school's grading system is written in Python. Bwah-hah-hah! ;-) 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.
Very cool. Perhaps a the PiCroft image would be of interest. The Mycroft AI folks were sprinting on that all four sprint days at PyCon. -- *Kevin Cole* <http://novawebdevelopment.org> Nova Web Development Co-Op http://novawebdevelopment.org/ Arlington, VA