Jay,
You can try my Hands-on Python Tutorial.
http://cs.luc.edu/anh/python/hands-on
It would work for high school students and possibly middle school, too.  Not the kid-laugh lines of Snake-Wrangling.  The tutorial setup is good for self-study.

Andy

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Jay Bloodworth <jbloodworth@sc.rr.com> wrote:
Anybody know any good self study resources for kids interested in
learning programming, pythonic or otherwise?  The kid(s) in question are
12-14.

Jay

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