[Year 12 SofDev] Python Version

[Laurie Savage]

My year 9 girls did a couple of hours of Alice at one of Therese Keanes
student days at Swinburne. They liked it a lot.

Laurie Savage
https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home

On 28 May 2015 at 08:58, Kent Beveridge <kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

>  Just as an appendix...I am not taking a VCE group presently...none
> elected IT at VCE level for 2015.
> My Python class is in fact a year 9 crew...but the link is still a great
> one ....we are just about to move into the graphical applications
> stuff....the menus also have video training as part of the link, it's a
> complete package. I like it.
> Ps...I am using ALICE for the first time  and it's not too bad but is
> taking some getting used to. The tutes are great and the assessment tools
> are handy too...used at year 8.
>
> Kent Beveridge
> Teacher
>
> On 28 May 2015, at 8:49 am, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>   I second Kent's recommendation. I've used Prof. Craven's
> http://www.programarcadegames.com/ site with a couple of classes now, it
> uses 3.x and it's one of the better courses around. Python 2.x and 3.x live
> happily side-by-side on Windows or Linux but need a little bit of tweaking
> on Mac. The site talks about how to do this.
>
>  I had a lot of fun, and my kids enjoyed making old-school text adventure
> games. They will end up with a full Windowed GUI that uses classes and
> objects.
>
>      Laurie Savage
> https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home
>
> On 27 May 2015 at 13:10, Nayak, Jayanti S <
> nayak.jayanti.s at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>
>>   Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I want to teach programming concepts using Python programming language to
>> my Year-10 students. I haven't taught python programming before.
>>
>>
>>
>> I noticed that the desktop computers in our school have Edustar image
>> with Python 2.5 version. On their website however, they have two versions
>> - 2.7.10 or 3.4.3. Now I am confused which one to use.
>>
>>
>>
>> If someone is using python, could you tell me which version would be
>> recommended. What are limitations with Python 2.5?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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