Computer Science lessons using Python
This is a collection of lessons designed to let students and teachers new to Python explore the language in a comfortable, guided-but-exploratory environment. The lessons have some overlapping skills, and there's not right or wrong order to their undertaking.
These lessons are written with teachers in mind—specifically, teachers who are unfamiliar with Python, and perhaps with programming entirely. No prior knowledge is necessary to get going with these lessons.
The lessons are designed for use with the IDLE environment, so go get that. And, of course, I recommend using a GNU/Linux operating system, but any *Nix-flavored OS will do. I suppose Windows would be fine. I honestly haven't ever run Python on Windows.
A nice text editor like Atom might be helpful as well. This project was written in it!
You, the teacher, should read the lesson.md file in each lesson directory.
Inside, you'll find instructional guidelines based on an Understanding-by-Design
model. You'll also find some suggestions on how to introduce these projects to
students.
I recommend not showing the provided code files to your students until after you've set the tasks laid out in the files and let your students work on them for a while. Use the examples to guide and "unstick" your students. Don't give them the answers.