You might want to look at Processing ( http://www.processing.org/ ). Although it Java and not Python, it's great for first getting into programming. With one or two lines of code you can have shapes appear on screen. With a few more lines you can have animation or 3D.
They have lots of documentation too. -ww On Jan 26, 2006, at 5:27 PM, catherine curley wrote: > Adam > > I'm an old COBOL programmer/analyst that have moved on to other > areas over time. I'm trying to get my 12 year old interested in > computers instead of just playing games. I've gone through a > number of the tutorials available on the internet but haven't come > up with suitable examples that would be suitable for a 12 year old > to try. He can enter the instruction in some of the tutorials but > he can't comprehend how he might use python. Have you come across > any simple exercises for kids. > > Catherine > ______________________________________________________ winston wolff - (646) 827-2242 - http://www.stratolab.com learning by creating - video game courses for kids in new york _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
