Re: [Edu-sig] Teaching python at a Computer Clubhouse

2012-05-22 Thread Brian Wilkinson
g] On Behalf Of Carl Cerecke Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 6:23 PM To: Laura Creighton Cc: edu-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Teaching python at a Computer Clubhouse The kids are 10-18. Yes, I won't group them by birth-date. I started teaching myself programming when I was about 10, on a

Re: [Edu-sig] Teaching python at a Computer Clubhouse

2012-05-21 Thread Luis Miguel Morillas
2012/5/21 kirby urner : > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Carl Cerecke wrote: >> I'm thinking of becoming a mentor at a local Computer >> Clubhouse http://www.computerclubhouse.org/. In particular, there are some >> kids there who are quite keen to learn to make their own games, but none of >> th

Re: [Edu-sig] Teaching python at a Computer Clubhouse

2012-05-21 Thread Carl Cerecke
The kids are 10-18. Yes, I won't group them by birth-date. I started teaching myself programming when I was about 10, on a Commodore-64, from books and magazines. If there's a kid that's as keen as I was at that age, then hopefully they'll be able to progress rapidly. The group will be fairly small

Re: [Edu-sig] Teaching python at a Computer Clubhouse

2012-05-21 Thread kirby urner
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Carl Cerecke wrote: > I'm thinking of becoming a mentor at a local Computer > Clubhouse http://www.computerclubhouse.org/. In particular, there are some > kids there who are quite keen to learn to make their own games, but none of > the current mentors know any pro

Re: [Edu-sig] Teaching python at a Computer Clubhouse

2012-05-21 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Tue, 22 May 2012 08:54:47 +1200, Carl Cerecke writes: >I'm thinking of becoming a mentor at a local Computer Clubhouse >http://www.computerclubhouse.org/. In particular, there are some kids the >re >who are quite keen to learn to make their own games, but none of the >current mento

[Edu-sig] Teaching python at a Computer Clubhouse

2012-05-21 Thread Carl Cerecke
I'm thinking of becoming a mentor at a local Computer Clubhouse http://www.computerclubhouse.org/. In particular, there are some kids there who are quite keen to learn to make their own games, but none of the current mentors know any programming (one said that he had done some "programming" in HTML