one thought: after having read your introduction for the teachers, i wonder why you did not "sort it" the other way round: first the hands on and the tutorials and then the theory...
we suggest the kids to first do the pong game in scratch (we have a booklet with step by step instructions) and then use the set of cards (in order) to do the same.
we try to avoid that they just copy the snippets line by line, without thinking at what they are doing...
i will now give them a link to your book when they want to learn about python!
one thought: after having read your introduction for the teachers, i wonder why you did not "sort it" the other way round: first the hands on and the tutorials and then the theory...
for our coderdojo we went for a "cards" approach:
https://github.com/CoderDojoZH/resources/tree/master/cards-p...
we suggest the kids to first do the pong game in scratch (we have a booklet with step by step instructions) and then use the set of cards (in order) to do the same. we try to avoid that they just copy the snippets line by line, without thinking at what they are doing...
i will now give them a link to your book when they want to learn about python!