[Inpycon] PythonExpress for school students

[Jaysinh Shukla]

On Sunday 02 October 2016 05:09 PM, vijay kumar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> During PyCon India 2016 open space, we discussed about conducting 
> workshops for school students.
> Teaching school students might be a bit challenging as they have 
> minimal knowledge on programming. Real time and visual results will 
> excite them to learn programming language and try things on their own.
>
> We can conduct python workshops with the help of low cost single board 
> computers like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ExpEYES or something similar to 
> it which will be helpful in teaching and also make the students 
> understand.
>
> Since the cost of these single board computers are less, its 
> affordable for students to buy on their own to pursue it further.
>
> I would request everyone to share your thoughts on the same and help 
> in building the workshop topics and content for school students.
>
> Thanks,
> Vijay
>
>
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Respected Community,

     I believe the idea of teaching school students is great. R.Pi is 
chip and mostly available in India, but, we should also consider the 
option of BBC Micro bit 
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4hVG2Br1W1LKCmw8nSm9WnQ/the-bbc-micro-bit). 
Though it is not available in India, we can request the Government of 
India to help us in this.
     On the other side I believe we can also plan for the specially 
designed tutorials for kids using [turtle 
module](https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/turtle.html) of Python.
     Looking forward for views of the community. Many Thanks!