One of my VCE students won an IT scholarship and returned to school after a January University summer camp with some experience programming in Python and some very good impressions about how easy it was to learn and use. During the camp, her team built a web crawling Internet robot and a computer game then had a quick look at VPython. She had only just cut her teeth on GameMaker in year 10 and again at year 11.
<br><br>From what I can Google, there are ooodles of resources, tutorials and training videos out there. Free to download and works on Windows and Unix/Linux/MacOSX systems. Would love to learn it myself beyond just typing "hello world". :-)
<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 13/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Bird</b> <<a href="mailto:sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Our students do Flash in Yr 9, <a href="http://VB.NET" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">VB.NET</a> in Yr 10, PHP and MySQL in Yr<br>> 12 so I am thinking I might go with either :
<br>><br>> 1. Basic PHP/MySQL or<br>> 2. VBA behind Access or Excel or
<br>> 3. ASP in web pages or<br>> 4. java or<br>> 5. javascript or<br>> 6. python<br><br>As I've mentioned previously on this list, we've chosen Python in our<br>new first year IT subjects at Melbourne University. Sydney Uni also
<br>teaches Python in its first year IT curriculum.<br><br>More detail on our new first year informatics subjects is available here:<br> <a href="http://www.informatics.unimelb.edu.au/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.informatics.unimelb.edu.au/
</a><br><br><br>Steven Bird<br><a href="http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/%7Esb/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/</a><br>_______________________________________________
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