Snake Wrangling for Kids

November 8th, 2007 § 3 comments

This just cross the internets:

“Snake Wran­gling for Kids” is a print­able elec­tronic book, for chil­dren 8 years and older, who would like to learn com­puter pro­gram­ming. It cov­ers the very basics of pro­gram­ming, and uses the Python pro­gram­ming lan­guage to teach the con­cepts. Exam­ples are pre­sented for Win­dows, Mac OSX and Linux.

Learn more at the web­site.

This intrigues me, given my predilec­tion to read­ing books such as “Core Python Pro­gram­ming” to my infant daugh­ter. While I think she missed a lot of the basic type infor­ma­tion — she seemed to perk up when we talked about classes.

  • cowmix

    I was just about to teach my nine year old Python.. this is great!

  • http://pythonbook.coffeeghost.net Al Sweigart

    I’d like to rec­om­mend a book I wrote on com­puter game pro­gram­ming for kids in the Python pro­gram­ming lan­guage. The book is avail­able for free under a Cre­ative Com­mons license.

    Each chap­ter in the book shows the com­plete source code for an entire game, and then teaches pro­gram­ming con­cepts from the exam­ples. I wrote this book because most pro­gram­ming books read like bland math­e­mat­ics text­books; prin­ci­ples first, with prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tion and exam­ples second.

    The book’s web­site is http://pythonbook.coffeeghost.net

  • http://pythonbook.coffeeghost.net Al Sweigart

    I’d like to rec­om­mend a book I wrote on com­puter game pro­gram­ming for kids in the Python pro­gram­ming lan­guage. The book is avail­able for free under a Cre­ative Com­mons license.

    Each chap­ter in the book shows the com­plete source code for an entire game, and then teaches pro­gram­ming con­cepts from the exam­ples. I wrote this book because most pro­gram­ming books read like bland math­e­mat­ics text­books; prin­ci­ples first, with prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tion and exam­ples second.

    The book’s web­site is http://pythonbook.coffeeghost.net

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