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A comment on Ask HN: Curriculum ideas for teaching programming to middle school kids.

Re:Ask HN: Curriculum ideas for teaching programming to midd... by osullivj on Friday April 07, 2017 @10:08AM (#14059728)
Teach them Python by building a game in PyGame?
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Re:Ask HN: Curriculum ideas for teaching programming to midd... by siege_conform on Friday April 07, 2017 @10:34AM (#14059952)
Yeah Python is great for beginners I think. List of introductory books: https://wiki.python.org/moin/IntroductoryBooks

Some written specifically for children. Don't know much about them, but they're worth looking into.

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/python-proj...

https://www.nostarch.com/pythonforkids

https://www.manning.com/books/hello-world

https://www.nostarch.com/teachkids

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