Snake Wrangling for Kids
Learning to Program with Python.
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“Snake Wrangling for Kids” is a printable electronic book, for children 8 years and older, who would like to learn computer programming. It covers the very basics of programming, and uses the Python 3 programming language to teach the concepts.
There are 3 different versions of the book (one for Mac, one for Linux and one for Windows), and the printable 1.4MB PDFs can be downloaded from the Google Code project for free (zipped size is about 1MB):
http://code.google.com/p/swfk/downloads/list
There have been 14800 downloads, as of March 2009.
NOTE: If you want to use Python 2, download version 0.7.2. If you’d prefer a printed, bound book, rather than a download, the Windows version is available from Lulu.com.
Please note: this is a self-edited (obviously unpublished) manuscript (with help from feedback from the Python community), and as such may not be quite as polished as I would like. Feedback is welcome, and I’ll update the book whenever necessary. If your kids are having trouble understanding something, please let me know, and I’ll use the feedback to hopefully make improvements.
All updates will be announced here (or the feed subscription is http://www.briggs.net.nz/log/feed). You can find more information, including the LaTeX source at the Google Code project as well.
The original combined version (including all 3 operating systems) of the book can still be found here.
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Thanks a lot, this is a pleasure to read your book (I laught a lot). Is there a French version somewhere ? do you want one ? I would be glad to help, if I can.
Thanks Pierre. Yes there is a French version. Links to the other translations are on the google code project, but the French version can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/swfk-fr/
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