daniel-grumberg/turtle-graphics

Sample code and material for teaching programming to young first timers

Turtle Graphics

This repo, serves as place to hold my course materials teaching programming to novice 13 year olds. The assumed set up is a Python 3.x installation with support for the turtle package (which in turn relies on tkinter).

Structure

The repository contains the following:

• A markdown file for each session labelled by lesson number and associated project. These aim to introduce programming concepts as we go along focusing on one aspect of the turtle graphics environment at a time. They will contain a title, a learning objectives section, as well as a section dedicated to the practical exercise.
• A projects directory providing full implementations of the projects for demonstration purposes.
• A work sheets directory containing pdfs of all the work sheets that were given to the students.

Aims

Provide a stimulating environment with direct visual feedback for pupils to learn programming simple programs and algorithms. The focus is on simple sequencing, common programming idioms, iteration, and problem solving. Simple data strucutres such as arrays might be brought into the mix time permitting.