[Edu-sig] GvR and Python in the high school

[Dan Schellenberg]

Hello all.  I have posed the following question to Jeffrey Elkner, and 
thought it would be a suitable topic of discussion here on edu-sig as 
well.

I am a pre-service teacher finishing off the last semester of my degree 
before venturing into the world of full-time teaching.  I will likely 
be teaching some introductory computer science in the fall, and would 
like to use Python as my language of choice.  Additionally, I am 
intending to start the semester with a couple of weeks of GvR (Guido 
van Robot).  Due to my lack of experience, I was hoping you could help 
me with my anticipated timeline...

Questions:
- how long does it take for your students to work through the 18 steps 
of GvR?  http://gvr.sourceforge.net/lessons/rfrank/
- would you be willing to share your course overview/expected timeline 
for an introductory CS class with me?

Any help you would be willing to give would be much appreciated.
Dan

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Dan Schellenberg
schellenberg at gmail.com
http://www.educationaltechnology.ca/dan/