[Bf-education] Blender for kids

Tom M letterrip at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 22:06:07 CEST 2015


If teaching python,

have a look at courseras two intro python courses

Learning to Program - The Fundamentals
https://www.coursera.org/course/programming1

Learning to Program -  Crafting Quality code
https://www.coursera.org/course/programming2

These are the best introductory programming courses I've seen.

Tom M.


On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Monique <m.dewanchand at atmind.nl> wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> Thank you for sharing.
> When it comes to python, personally I wouldn't start with explaining data
> types. I've seen some kids struggle with this.
>
> What is your experience?
>
> Rgds,
> Monique
>
> Op 11/08/15 om 22:02 schreef Peter Koppatz:
>
> Hi Monique,
>
>
> Past months I've been asked to give Blender workshops to kids between 8
> and 16 years old. I searched for Blender teaching material but couldn't
> find much. I decided to use some simple models from Blendswap and hide
> the majority of buttons in the UI. Surprisingly this worked better than
> expected.
> The kids were very enthusiastic and could perform the tasks pretty well.
> At the end I was asked how kids could continu learning Blender.
>
> This motivated me to start an open website/platform in NL to teach kids
> more on technology, especially Blender & Python. But what is a good
> format for teaching Blender to kids?
> Can we teach Blender to kids in a same manner as kids are thaught math
> or grammar?
> Are there tutorials or program lessons available for kids?
> Is anyone working on this and willing to cooperate?
>
>
> The „Python Software Verband (PySV)" started in 2013 a programming contest
> for kids in Germany[1]. I have written a collection of tutorials to teach
> and prepare interested kids. The focus is programming with Python! There was
> always a great interest in using and translating the existing german
> version. So I started to reorganize the course material and switched to use
> the english version as a master. Now other people can translate the english
> version to other languages. The course material is available at
> bitbucket[2], and Transifex[3] is used for translations. The prototype of
> the new multilingual version is available at http://pymove3d.sudile.com.
> The new structure and the translation is a work in progress, and a little
> bit a mess, because my english is very poor. Nevertheless you could either
> help to finish and develop the existing material or improve the english
> version or use parts of the course material as you like. There are also some
> open problems due to the course material in different languages. I have some
> ideas but not a real solution e. g.  for short videos and screenshots (with
> text added on the images). SVG could be a solution. Suggestions and help is
> always appreciated.
>
> If you have further questions, ask me.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Peter
>
> [1] http://pymove3d.pysv.org/ (German only)
> [2] https://bitbucket.org/pkoppatz/pymove3d-en
> [3] https://www.transifex.com/pysv/
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Monique Dewanchand
> At Mind
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