[Year 12 SofDev] [Year 12 IT Apps] Slightly OT: Excellent Python Resource

[Mark]

Hi John. This might be worth posting to the SD list so I've CC'd this reply
to them ...

Thanks for the tip!

Regards
Mark

On 13 November 2014 09:23, Savage, John L <savage.john.l at edumail.vic.gov.au>
wrote:

>  I have been trialling http://www.programarcadegames.com/ (an American
> college course) with a year 10 class. They like it and they get it. We’ve
> looked at codeacademy and a few others over the past couple of years and
> while they are often very slick we’ve been unimpressed by either their
> pedagogy or suitability for secondary students.
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> This site presents a self-paced chapter by chapter program. Each chapter
> is supported by videos on Youtube and consists of a teaching block where
> students would do some copy and paste into IDLE, a set of multiple choice
> questions to test understanding, a theory worksheet to reinforce, and
> finally a lab to apply. The labs are well structured and the students are
> guided through the structure and logic of a program without being able to
> copy and paste. I find it incorporates well into a classroom where I can
> sit with individual kids and steer them in a useful direction.
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> Lesson one treats IPO by building little specialist calculators, and by
> lesson 4 the kids are writing a text based adventure game (based on an old
> BASIC game “Camel”). If a student perseveres (and they probably will
> because it’s fun) they will have produced their own animated game, having
> explored arrays, iteration and classes along the way.
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> Here is the table of contents
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> Laurie Savage
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> http://accelerus.pvgc.vic.edu.au
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> --

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