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Python Projects for Kids

By : Jessica Ingrassellino
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Python Projects for Kids

By: Jessica Ingrassellino

Overview of this book

Kids are always the most fast-paced and enthusiastic learners, and are naturally willing to build stuff that looks like magic at the end (when it works!). Programming can be one such magic. Being able to write a program that works helps them feel they've really achieved something. Kids today are very tech-savvy and cannot wait to enter the fast-paced digital world. Because Python is one of the most popular languages and has a syntax that is quite simple to understand, even kids are eager to use it as a stepping stone to learning programming languages. This book will cover projects that are simple and fun, and teach kids how to write Python code that works. The book will teach the basics of Python programming, installation, and so on and then will move on to projects. A total of three projects, with each and every step explained carefully, without any assumption of previous experience.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Python Projects for Kids
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Coding challenges


Aside from all of the neat things that you can do with Python code, you can practice coding Python by finding coding challenges and completing them alone or with friends. These challenges range from being short to long, easy to difficult, and are a great way to keep your skills sharp between projects. The coding challenges usually aim at one specific coding skill each, as follows:

  • Printing

  • Iterating over loops

  • Creating variables, strings, and integers

  • Data management

  • Functions

  • if/elif/else

  • Nested if/elif/else

  • Nested logic

  • Recursing

If you don't feel totally comfortable with these terms, look them up, read more about them, and try some of the coding challenges to strengthen your skills. Here are some websites that have coding challenges in Python:

You can find hundreds of practice problems in these links...