🐍 Python Tutorial
Six small projects, each ≈1 hour. By the end you’ll have written your own Python program, art, animations, and a real Snake game.
The course is adapted from the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s “Introduction to Python” pathway (used under CC BY-SA 4.0), with their inline-editor concept preserved here in your browser.
6-project course — all 6 projects built! 🎉
| Project | Type | What you build | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔓 | 1 — Hello World | Explore | Interactive program: greet by name, roll a dice, mix emojis |
| 🔓 | 2 — Target Practice | Explore | An archery game (with if / elif / else) |
| 🔓 | 3 — Rocket Launch | Explore | An animated rocket (with for loops) |
| 🔓 | 4 — Make a Face | Design | Your own face, monster, or alien |
| 🔓 | 5 — Snake! | Design | The classic Snake game |
| 🔓 | 6 — Invent Your Own | Invent | Something all yours |
Each project ends with a working program you can run, change, and show off.
💡 Three big tips
- ✍️ Type the code yourself. Don’t copy-paste. Typing helps your brain remember.
- 🛑 Errors are okay. Red messages aren’t scary — they’re clues.
- 🔬 Try stuff. Change a number, change a word, see what happens. You can’t break anything.
👨👩👧 For parents — the Solution button is PIN-locked
Every step has a 💡 Solution button that fills in the answer. To stop kids from tapping it the moment they get stuck, it asks for a parent PIN the first time it’s used per browser tab.
- Default PIN:
1234 - Change the PIN: visit any page once with
?set-pin=NNNNin the URL (e.g.?set-pin=9876). The new PIN is saved in this browser only. 4–8 digits. - Once unlocked, Solution works freely for the rest of that browser tab. Closing the tab re-locks it.
(It’s a friction barrier, not real security — anyone determined could read the PIN in the page source. But it does the job of “ask your parent first.”)