try ruby! is pretty enticing, I agree, great use of AJAX to refresh the cue cards at bottom. Might be a fun Django project (I assume this is Rails?). I rarely have the challenge to initiate an interest in Python, as by the time students have entered my class, studies the class description, they've made up their minds. Some of them have already checked it out or used it in other classes. Here's my current course description for Spring (written by Gail, other staff): ==== Computer Animation Programming Supercharge your programming skills as you learn the software Star Wars animators, Google engineers, and game designers use to make their projects a success! You will develop your Python skills using simple vector-based geometry in an object-oriented approach. You'll get hands-on experience with POV-Ray, a full-featured ray tracer that can create stunning photo-realistic computer-generated images and animations and experiment in VPython, a real-time game-like environment. Other topics include data structures, classes and objects, control statements, and reading and writing files. ==== I also don't work with children under 15 for the most part, and these days am lucky to see anyone under 25 (I'm not a full time classroom teacher, just venture there from my private sector perch in the private sector). I should remember my limited experience, as a former high school math teacher in Jersey City, as an application developer. I am not a preschool specialist or administrator, although I did at one time evaluate products aimed at this market for McGraw-Hill (a long time ago). Kirby Urner @ Fine Grind (CFN) Portland, Oregon On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Jurgis Pralgauskis <jurgis.pralgauskis@gmail.com> wrote:
also would be a good to have interactive tutorial, which would comunicate with user/learner in similar manner as tryruby... or maybe more advanced chatbot..
import intro or learn, teachmeintro
maybe smb knows of similar initiatives ? and which text tutorial would you propose? I'd like it to be short kind of python in 5/10 minutes: http://www.poromenos.org/tutorials/python http://jamwt.com/misc/pyten.txt