[Sugar-devel] Python tutorial for Pippy

[samir menon]

I have been looking for something like this for quite a while. I am going to
try to teach my little brother, (about 10) , to learn programming, and this
seems like the perfect way to do it. I have been learning python myself and
was very intriuged (sp?) by your code. However, when I went to run it, I
encountered a few problems: (BTW, I am on a windows machine, should I try
running it on my XO?)
-The function lowercase() ... is that in an older version of python?
-I am on python 3.1, was this written in 2.6 or something?

Other than that (by looking at your code) I see that this is an awesome
program! [?]

~Samir

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Dinko Galetic <dinko.galetic at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm currently working on a Python tutorial for Pippy as part of my GSOC
> project.
> I've written several lessons and am now wrapping them in Python code to
> make them interactive. I've attached a prototype of what I'm trying to
> accomplish and I'm hoping for your reviews (it's also available in my Pippy
> branch).
>
> I imagined the lessons being put in /data/tutorial/ and that they are
> accessed the same way Pippy examples are. Each such file would just have a
> few lines of comments to explain what the lesson is about and how to use it,
> and "import lesson<x>, lesson<x>.run() ". The lesson<x>.py files would be in
> /library/pippy/tutorial/ or somewhere similar.
>
> Comments on ANY part of it would be greatly appreciated, even if it's just
> a suggestion to use a different variable name in the examples the learner
> will see, or to (no matter how slightly) modify the way something is
> explained. It's really important to teach programming as clearly as
> possible, IMO.
>
> Kind regards,
> Dinko
>
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