Re: [LUG] Pi for kids

On 7 November 2013 13:07, Tremayne, Steve <steven.tremayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One thing that I'd suggest is to get the hang of it yourself first

I tried showing my 10 (and a half...) year old daughter some Scratch, but hadn't learnt it myself... of course, when you start staring at the screen trying to speed-guess things, kids just get bored.

Of course, doing other things with it which have immediate results - i.e. try messing about with the webcam for example - get's their attention back :)

Steve

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Subject: Re: [LUG] Pi for kids

On 06/11/13 12:37, Rob Beard wrote:
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> On 06/11/2013 12:21, Philip Hudson wrote:
>> My son got a Raspberry Pi for his 10th birthday today. Anyone got any
>> Pi tips, tricks, hints, pointers, tutorials, or projects specifically
>> for kids that they'd like to recommend? TIA
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> Obvious thing I can think of is installing Scratch and maybe having a
> play with that, there's loads of documentation and tutorials out there
> and I gather from speaking to others with kids that it's quite popular
> (heck what am I saying, I had a whole lot of fun with it too once I
> got into it :-D).
>
> Rob
>
Scratch is on the pi by default and my latest update (see other
messages) pulled in not only what seems to be general pi face support but scratch pi face support too, i don't have a pi face so maybe someone that does, can investigate and report back.

Have a look at the python games, one tip if wormy is too fast, look at the source code for FPS = 25 and make that number lower, and the game
slows down, i did this at the last exeter pi jam. Armed with this,
perhaps look at the code together and do this.

Talk to gordon about installing his BASIC too, if you're more used to BASIC it is a good way to learn and you're not trying to fight with python insisting that you have things like : ; and other blocks in exactly the right format.

Paul

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