<div dir="ltr"><div>I second Kent's recommendation. I've used Prof. Craven's <a href="http://www.programarcadegames.com/">http://www.programarcadegames.com/</a> 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.<br><br></div>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.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Laurie Savage<br><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 May 2015 at 13:10, Nayak, Jayanti S <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nayak.jayanti.s@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">nayak.jayanti.s@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I want to teach programming concepts using Python programming language to my Year-10 students. I haven't taught python programming before.
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<p>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.
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<p>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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Sunbury College, 30, Race Course Road,<br>
Sunbury - 3429.</div>
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