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How Coding a Number Draw Game Teaches Probability
Probability is one of those topics that stays slippery on paper and suddenly makes sense the moment you code it.
Our club owns eleven Raspberry Pi kits, two spare keyboards and a shelf of donated Python books. Last spring we lost track of four of them in a single term. Nobody stole anything; people just borrowed things and forgot.
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Probability is one of those topics that stays slippery on paper and suddenly makes sense the moment you code it.
Python and Practice
Last term, eleven of the fourteen beginners in our Thursday group could write a working loop by week three.
Teaching Code
A student hands you a 40 line Python script that works, sort of, and you can see nine things wrong with it.
Club Projects
The first long coding club project I ran had eleven students on day one and four on demo day.
First Steps
The hardest moment for most new programmers is not writing a line of code.
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Dictionaries are where a lot of beginners stall. Lists make intuitive sense because they are just things in a row, but a...
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