Janet, I am not sure what age group your programmers are, but what about using "pygame" and running a competition to produce games for preschool children? I am sure it's been done before but it has a very practical outcome for future parents (both male and female).
To help things along you could provide a working game as a template so that the students can immediately see how their changes affect results. The challenge for you will be to prevent or detect plagiarism of any of the many existing games that can be downloaded! With the same pygame framework, if you are up to the task yourself, you could knock up a robot/car/flight simulator with an API that the kids can interface to and control. Their task might be to automatically navigate some terrain based on feedback from your simulated sensors. Matthew Naylor _______________________________________________ sapug mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/sapug
