Hi all, I finally prepared a "zero course" for high school students and delivered it in two sessions of four hours each. We enjoyed an excellent computing lab at www.u-tad.com and the support of the IT support crew so the 33 machines were ready from minute 1. The course was for free, students were from nearby high schools, and I assume they were very motivated to spend two Friday afternoons inside a classroom instead of going out with their friends. The college is located in the outskirts of Madrid in a residential area of middle or upper-middle income families.
I did not take pictures, because students were not legally aged and sharing them without parental consent is illegal in Spain. As a sad point, the gender gap is also present among this young generation, only 4 girls and 29 boys. I had the help of four brilliant CS freshmen. It was the first contact with Python for them, but as long as they are fluent in other programming languages they were able to help the high schoolers (indentation errors were common...). I have published the course under a CC 4.0 license (it is written in Spanish, I will share it through the translation email list as well). https://github.com/jgalgarra/introprogpython They loved sounds and animations. I used the "Leisure Suit Larry" tune as an example of 8-bit sound, and no one knew it, even those more addicted to games... I would like to hear for other experiences with young students without coding experience. Regards, Javier 2017-11-29 16:00 GMT+01:00 Greg Wilson <[email protected]>: > Hi Javier, > > I highly recommend https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Computing- > Programming-Python-4th/dp/0134025547/ - it's designed for first-year > college students (age 18-19) and uses multimedia manipulation (image, > sound, and video) for its examples. > > Cheers, > > Greg > > On 2017-11-29 9:44 AM, Javier García Algarra wrote: > > Hi all: > > I am going to give an introductory lesson to students from 16 to 18 years > old that do not > plan to follow a STEM path, but some digital-enabled artistic disciplines: > animation, design and so on. This is an optional activity, so we assume > that enrolled students have a strong motivation to learn programming basic > skills. I plan to use the Pyhton lesson as a template, and I would > appreciate your advice to deal with this scenario. > > Thanks in advance > > Javier > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing > [email protected]http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >
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