Teaching My Son Python
My son is entering 4th grade and I thought, “can’t be a better time to teach him programming than now.” It helped that he genuinely expressed interest as well. I’m about a week in and it’s going great. We’ve even started going through and programming a robot hand on the Raspberry Pi.
I started with some basics on machine code to Assembly and then to Python. I showed him the logic gates and how dumb computers really are (he really like that one :)). I then guided him on how to setup his IDE and configure Python on his laptop.
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The first lesson involved the print() function. After displaying a few funny things on the screen, I drew a “map” for him on the screen and told him to write a program that will give someone directions based on the map. It started with some basic left and right turns and then went into distances as well.
