Vern Ceder Combining Python with inexpensive robots is a very effective way of teaching programming at the middle and high school levels. Since Python is easy to understand a constructivist approach is possible - students learn by creating and running simple programs, observing the results, and then modifying their code to fix bugs and add functionality.
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