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

Mark mark at vceit.com
Thu Nov 13 10:36:05 EST 2014


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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