>> Hi folks, >> >> My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good >> choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I >> thought it would be good to have a bunch of playful coding problems >> for her, stuff that she could code herself maybe after some initial >> help. >> >> Do you guys know problems like these? Or a good resource where to look >> them up? >> >> Cheers, >> Daniel >> > > There's a great book valled 'Invent your own computer games using > Python', aimed at kids, which teaches programming from tne ground up, > in the context of writing games, starting with terminal word games, > ending with Pygame fullscreen 2D vector graphic & bitmaps affairs. > http://inventwithpython.com/ > > The website says aimed at kids 'ages 10 to 12 and upwards', so it > sounds like she's on the minimum cusp. > > (now I come to look at the website, one of the quotes he features is > from an Amazon review I wrote months ago! :-)
Thanks a lot for everyone for the suggestions, I think I'll be able to cook things up from all the references you sent! Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
