High School coding club

[willnida]

Hello! Just recently, a couple of guys at my high school and I were thinking about starting a coding club. We know for sure that we are going to learn python, because it is easy to learn, and a good springboard into other more complex languages, projects, etc. Also, we are most likely going to use the Python Bible from Udemy to teach the course. But I have some questions. Should we just let all the members of the club off on their own with the course? Or should we do check-ins, or hackathons?

Any suggestions as to what we should do would be a great help!!!

P.S: has anyone tried out the Udemy Python Bible course? If so, how is it?