The kids are 10-18. Yes, I won't group them by birth-date. I started teaching myself programming when I was about 10, on a Commodore-64, from books and magazines. If there's a kid that's as keen as I was at that age, then hopefully they'll be able to progress rapidly. The group will be fairly small, I imagine, so they can all be at different levels and rates without too much problem.
Thanks for the snake wrangling reference. Forgot about that. Cheers, Carl. On 22 May 2012 09:03, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > In a message of Tue, 22 May 2012 08:54:47 +1200, Carl Cerecke writes: > > >I'm thinking of becoming a mentor at a local Computer Clubhouse > >http://www.computerclubhouse.org/. In particular, there are some kids the > >re > >who are quite keen to learn to make their own games, but none of the > >current mentors know any programming (one said that he had done some > >"programming" in HTML). > >I would be grateful for any recommendations for material to help me and t > >he > >kids. I have plenty of programming experience and some teaching experienc > >e > >(at the university level, though). I've written some text-only turn-based > >games in python before (about the level of connect-4), but nothing with > >graphics. The idea is supposed to be that this is driven by the interests > >of the children, but I need to balance that with the requirement for a bi > >t > >of a programming foundation as well if they're going to be successful in > >writing the sort of games they're interested in. I also think I need to > >make sure their expectations are realistic... > >So, any advice/recommendations? > > > >Cheers, > >Carl. > > How old are the members of the clubhouse? > If at all possible you should let kids group by interest. > Date of manufacture (birth date) is a rotten way to sort people and your > kids, > like everybody else, will be happier if people are sorted by something > other than 'birth date'. > > I steal regularly from > http://www.briggs.net.nz/snake-wrangling-for-kids.html > > and given that the author is in NZ as well, he might have some insights > that are better shared in person. > > best of appreciation for what you are doing, > Laura Creighton >
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