Hello, everyone. I am in contact with teachers who will have to teach programming at the beginning of the next school year. It's going to be as part of a mandatory computer course, so they're going to be dealing with students who aren't necessarily very motivated. They are therefore looking for a way to make this course as interesting as possible.
The language is imposed, but, good news, it will be Python (version 3, probably). However, at the sight of the existing tutorials, whether they are written in Python or in another language, their main fear comes from the fact that the exercises have a text-based interface. Nowadays, almost all young people have a smartphone, so they are used to graphical interfaces. They have rarely, if ever, had to deal with a text console. Writing programs with a textual interface, they may (falsely) find this outdated and therefore not very motivating. Therefore, I am currently working on a Python module that will allow to design exercises, not with a text-based interface, but with a web interface. An exercise consists, for the studentq, in writing a program that solves a certain task. To check that the program is working properly, they will have to modify its parameters. This is usually done by modifying these parameters directly in the source code, or by entering their value at runtime with the help of 'input(...)' instructions. With a web interface, they will have a real graphical interface to enter the values of the different parameters. This is much more convenient, and also much closer to what they are used to with their smartphones. The module is designed in such a way that, as soon as the program corresponding to the exercise is launched, a web browser automatically opens to give access to the interface of the program. In addition, the student will be able to open the URL of the program on its smartphone, or even send this URL to its friends/parents/teachers/whoever, so they can use its program on their own device. So that you can see what it looks like and how it works, here is the address where you will find some examples of exercises based on this module: https://q37.info/s/tpkx4cfk . Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. I am also looking for content that I could adapt using the module, so that I can provide a set of ready-to-use exercises to teachers who need them. There is a lot of such content, but I have a little trouble choosing, knowing that the purpose of the exercises will be, not the learning of Python, but the learning of programming. Any help will also be welcome. Regards, -- Claude SIMON (http://q37.info) _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list -- edu-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to edu-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/edu-sig.python.org/
