On 2010-11-01, Martin v. Loewis <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> 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. > > I think anything that has to do with drawing and colors will be > attractive, animated if possible. It has to look nice. > > Take a look at the turtle demos.
The book _Simply Scheme_ contains a lot of word problems, which I think is quite nice. possessive,is_palindrom, pig_latin, and so forth might make good Python exercises, too. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
