[Inpycon] PythonExpress for school students

[Vijay Kumar]

On Sun, October 2, 2016 5:09 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.

I am not exactly sure, what age group we are targetting here. For
introducing students to programming, the standard approaches are

  1. Turtle Graphics (pioneered by MIT)
  2. Karel, the Robot (pioneered by Stanford)

The turtle module is available as part of the Python standard library.

Karel is nice alternative to consider, because it allows people to write
programs with loops, conditions, etc. without involving math! There are
many implementations of karel for Python. The one available at
http://reeborg.ca/ is my favourite. It is written using Brython and runs
in your browser!


Regards,
Vijay