Hi. I am a teacher @teknoteacher at a secondary school in Preston, Lancs. I am going to be teaching Python for the first time in a few weeks to 14/15 year olds at my school as part of their Computing GCSE. I am trying to move our school curriculum away from teaching MS Office to real computing!
After spending a long time searching for the write model or language in which to teach programming, I have finally settled on Python. It seems perfect for what I was looking for. I am intending to come to meeting on Thurs 18th August at Madlab and have persuaded a teaching colleague from another school to attend, Don Jones @fallibroomeICT If you are interested, on Thursday I could give a short presentation on the Computing GCSE and how I think Python fits in and share some of the free resources I have discovered while I have been planning. It would be useful to open this up to a discussion later to hear what other Python users have to contribute or suggest. Here is a blog I wrote about the last Computing At School meeting we hosted... http://caspreston.blogspot.com/ -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west
