Written by: Sofia N., member of GreekCodersK12

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The introductory program in Python was successfully completed   in collaboration with the program <py4hs> supported by Google GS4HS and organized by the University of Crete. See more at http://www.music.tuc.gr/projects/py4hs/ Teachers: Pola (Stavroula) Misthou-ICT teacher, Vasso Servou-ICT teacher and John Argyriou-upon ICT degree student, all members of the WG17 team of PY4HS.   30 Python Coding … Continue reading Py4hs Program

4th lesson: The Rock-Scissors-Paper Game 5th lesson: The DragonRealm Game 6th lesson: Loops, while, try/except and functions ...And certificates

When we all registered ourselves for a visit at the National Hellenic Research Foundation we knew it would be an extraordinary experience-we could easily imagine it. Since then, many weeks passed and the moment arrived that GreekCodersK12 crossed the threshold of NHRF, students so different in their education level but always a tightly knit team. The … Continue reading Our visit to National Hellenic Research Foundation

On January 27th, 2017  during our 3rd lesson in Python we got a bit familiar with operators. With the right commands students  asked user's birth year and then they calculated user's age. Command Input and library datetime appeared in students' program. They also sent messages to micro:bit using library microbit. **greek alphabet is not supported … Continue reading Calculations & decisions

Our second lesson started with the 1st greeting in programming languages: print(“Hello World!”)  And then computer wanted to talk to student, but didn't know the name of the student. So, giving the suitable command student informed  that the name is name = "Athina" Then student wrote a new command    print("Γειά σου", name) and computer displayed the  message … Continue reading Conversation & interaction

Paying tribute to Seymour Papert we started our first lesson in Python with turtle activities. Some students were familiar with LOGO MicroWorlds Pro, some others with SCRATCH and all of them with robot activities during the European Code Week .       Following this approach GreekCodersK12 passed from Logo to Python and they welcomed Python's editor, IDLE … Continue reading When LOGO First Met Python

It was when I was fourteen years old that I was given the chance to delve deeper into something I had liked since I was nine years old; one student proposed and we all agreed. We all agreed that we wanted to know more about computers, their uses and how we could use them. No … Continue reading Just Before Python Lessons