Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

2010-11-26 Thread Aahz
In article mailman.459.1288643471.2218.python-l...@python.org, Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com wrote: My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I thought it would be good to have a bunch of playful

Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

2010-11-02 Thread Jonathan Hartley
On Nov 1, 8:31 pm, Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi folks, My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I thought it would be good to have a bunch of playful coding problems for her,

Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

2010-11-02 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi folks, My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I thought it would be good to have a bunch of playful coding problems for her, stuff that she could code herself maybe after some initial help. Do you

Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

2010-11-02 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2010-11-01, Martin v. Loewis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I thought it would be good to have a bunch of playful coding problems for her, stuff that she could code

playful coding problems for 10 year olds

2010-11-01 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi folks, My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I thought it would be good to have a bunch of playful coding problems for her, stuff that she could code herself maybe after some initial help. Do you guys

Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

2010-11-01 Thread Dirk Nachbar
This is in JS but have a look here http://github.com/ryanmcgrath/splash On 1 Nov, 20:31, Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi folks, My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I thought it

Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

2010-11-01 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com writes: Hi folks, My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I thought it would be good to have a bunch of playful coding problems for her, stuff that she could

Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

2010-11-01 Thread Martin v. Loewis
My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I thought it would be good to have a bunch of playful coding problems for her, stuff that she could code herself maybe after some initial help. I think anything

Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

2010-11-01 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message 4ccf3595.2060...@v.loewis.de, Martin v. Loewis wrote: Take a look at the turtle demos. Are turtle graphics still enough to hold the kids’ interest these days? I’ve been visiting a local Computer Clubhouse, and it seems like they mostly spend their time in Google SketchUp and

Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

2010-11-01 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 11/1/2010 2:48 PM Martin v. Loewis said... My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I thought it would be good to have a bunch of playful coding problems for her, stuff that she could code herself maybe

Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

2010-11-01 Thread Gary Herron
On 11/01/2010 01:31 PM, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: Hi folks, My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I thought it would be good to have a bunch of playful coding problems for her, stuff that she could code