[Inpycon] PythonExpress for school students

[mohd sanad zaki rizvi]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Jaysinh Shukla <jaysinhp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
> I love the idea. Basic Mathematical computations can be good way to start.
Probably starting from using python as a calculator and then maybe using a
library to create some simple geometrical shapes  . Eventually going on to
solving geometry problems from their text books.

>
>> 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/4hVG2Br1W1LKCmw8nS
> m9WnQ/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.or
> g/3.6/library/turtle.html) of Python.
>     Looking forward for views of the community. Many Thanks!
>
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Regards
Sanad
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