[LCA2019 Chat] Teaching 9-10 year olds to code: Python materials

[Carl Karsten]

Hi,

Carl here from AV team - who also loves teaching people python and have a
new answer to "can you teach me some python"

I carry this with me at all times - find me tonight and I'll show it to you:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3333  $25usd

it runs Circuit Python, exposes a fs over usb, you edit code.py, hit save,
and you are controverting LEDs
no downloading or installing anything.  need something that can edit a text
file on a thumb drive.
which means they are engaged within 5 minutes.

here is the video I made of a 2 hour workshop using it:
http://youtu.be/RhgKRp3oo5o

How I set them up:
https://github.com/CarlFK/cpx




On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 1:43 AM Duane Griffin <duaneg at electricmemory.co.nz>
wrote:

> Thanks Robert,
>
> I can't wait to try these out with my kids. Will let you know how it goes!
>
> Cheers,
> Duane.
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 8:14 AM Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>> Some people asked for the course materials I mentioned in my talk.
>>
>> The Python tutorials are:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vYsUlW1N_oFCqTyCfyjm8MumQwrJUwAMobaH2lwczyA/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> The secret message challenge is (challenge given to kids, suggested
>> solution, code to generate custom challenges):
>> https://repl.it/@RobertAncell/SecretMessageChallenge
>> https://repl.it/@RobertAncell/SecretMessageChallengeSolution
>> https://repl.it/@RobertAncell/SecretMessageChallegeGenerator
>>
>> The second challenge I did (not mentioned in talk):
>> https://repl.it/@RobertAncell/SecretImageChallenge
>> https://repl.it/@RobertAncell/SecretImageChallengeSolution
>> https://repl.it/@RobertAncell/SecretImageChallengeGenerator
>>
>> Slides from talk:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H3jPFhHj90B_BEQ96YYM__0eZbHpONzw0oy-QS2Thrc/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> Hope this helps, find me if you have any questions.
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