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.
Please note: this is a self-edited (obviously unpublished) manuscript (with help from feedback from the Python community), and as such may not be quite as polished as I would like.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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Thank’s a Lot
Would like to use this book with my kids.
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Thanks a lot for this wonderful book!
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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We’re looking for help converting this to DocBook for integration with Jono Bacon’s PyJunior project. Anyone up for it?
http://twitter.com/prcutler/status/11846334166
http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/04/08/pyjunior-call-for-documentation-help/?replytocom=140735#respond
I misspoke. It’s Mallard, not DocBook.
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Hi, Jason — Thanks for this great resource. We’re starting Python in the 5th/6th grade computer programming class at the Orchard School in Aptos, California, USA, and we find this to be an excellent reference. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Larry.
Great! will teach my 8 year old daughter a basic program with python.=)
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I’d like to buy a real copy to use alongside the one I downloaded. Lulu says it is not available
oh… only the Windows version on Lulu. Scratch that.
Gnu/Linux roolz.
:p
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I was very happy to see a book actually aimed at children for teaching this, I must get my 5 year old started as soon as I can to give her an edge in future years should she decide she enjoys programming.
Thank you for the time spent writing it.
Got my little brother doing some Python, We started with Java but he found my college books a little too hard on the eyes. Loving this book. Great work!
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