Python to 10-year-olds

[Krayna]

Hi there,

I'm teaching a couple of kids Python an hour a week. When I started we would do simple little exercises like 'guess the number' or even 'hangman'. Slowly we have moved to more advanced tasks e.g. involving Tkinter.

My issue is that most pieces of code I come across are longer and would take several weeks if they were to type it all and its quite a laborious task.
If I would give them the code typed up it would hardly be teaching them new information.

Can anyone suggest how to go about this so my lessons are interesting and effective?
All suggestions welcome!

[Larz60+]

google "teach python to kids"
will give you quite a list of resources.

[menator01]

As Larz60+ suggested search is your best friend. In my opinion tkinter is the easiest gui to learn. Could start with:

1. basic window

import tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()
root.mainloop(

2. Labels

import tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()
label = tk.Label(root, text='My Label')
label.pack()
root.mainloop()

3. Buttons

import tkinter as tk
button = tk.Button(root, text='My Button')
button.pack()
root.mainloop()

4. Add commands to the buttons
5. Call functions with buttons

The list goes on and on

[rob101]

IMHO: if you want to teach the kids a simple to use GUI with quick results, I'd start them with EasyGui and move on to a more advanced GUI (such as Tkinter) as and when. That way they'll see a working GUI in no time flat, rather than pushing the potential limits of their attention span.

[Naviewater9426]

It depends on the age of the children you are teaching. Some kids don't pick it up very quickly, possibly because of their age. <url snipped>

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