Re: My 11 year old
Kevin Cole <[email protected]>
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On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Steve Eilertsen <[email protected]> wrote: Thought I would share this story. I have been teaching my son to edit > existing Python programs (rather than starting from scratch). He bought a > "Farm Expert 2017" - a complex 'FarmVille" type program. He discovered to > his delight that it was written in Python and was able to edit the amount > of money in his "account" to serval trillion dollars - now his farm looks > like the Dallas Ranch of the 1980's. > > Wait til he finds out his school's grading system is written in Python. Bwah-hah-hah! ;-) Silly things like this can motivate a boy far more than any other more > logical argument as to why coding is a beneficial skill to develop. So this > weekend it was learning to soldier as he now has all sorts of ideas to > automate his room using his Rpi which he got for his birthday last week. > Very cool. Perhaps a the PiCroft image would be of interest. The Mycroft AI folks were sprinting on that all four sprint days at PyCon. -- *Kevin Cole* <http://novawebdevelopment.org> Nova Web Development Co-Op http://novawebdevelopment.org/ Arlington, VA _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig