> Case in point. The other day I volunteered some time at the local > elementary school and the computer teacher was looking for something to > give to some more advanced 10 to 12 year olds. I told him that his > Mac's all have python installed and it comes with a turtle graphics > module. "Turtle?", he says. "Does it work like the old Logo system?" > After ten minutes of showing him how to get started and answering > things like "What's this terminal window thing" he's off and running > and very excited. It cost him very little time, no money out of his > budget, no software to install on 30 machines, and suddenly he has a > whole new tool to play with and expose his kids to some simple > programming concepts. Now he's off learning python. That's how it > should work for a newbie.
Wow! Great success story, Karl. Bill _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
