Teach Your Kids to Code: Learn to Program Python at Any Age!

• Welcome and Introduction
• Installing Python and Getting Started
• NEW: Installing Python 3.6 and Getting Started
• Update: Installing Python 3.6 on Windows PC's
• Update Video: Using Python 3.5 on Windows
• Writing Your First Program in Python
• Running and Modifying Programs in Python
• Extra App: NiceHexSpiral.py
• Coding Python on Chromebook!
• What You Can Do Now
• Programming Challenges - Practice What You've Learned
• $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council

• Introduction to Turtle Graphics in Python
• SquareSpiral: Our First Turtle Program
• Turtle on a Roll: Building A Winding Spiral
• Loop the Loop: Creating a Circle Spiral
• Adding Color to Your Turtle Drawings
• Painting a Four-Color Spiral
• Changing Background Colors
• One Variable to Rule Them All...
• S2P1 Programming Challenge Solution: 10-color Spiral!
• S2P2 Programming Challenge Solution: How Many Sides?
• S2P3 Programming Challenge Solution: Rubber Band Ball

• Intro to Variables: Where We Keep Our Stuff
• Numbers?and Math in Python
• Python Numbers and Operators
• Math in the Python Shell
• Syntax Errors: What Did You Say?
• Variables in the Python Shell
• Programming with Operators
• Strings: The Real Characters in Python
• Improving Our Color Spiral with Strings
• Lists in Python
• Python Math App: Python Does Your Math Homework!
• S3P1 Programming Challenge Solution: Circle Spiral Input!
• S3P2 Programming Challenge Solution: Color Me Spiraled

• Loops are Fun: You Can Say That Again!
• Building Your Own FOR Loops
• Using a FOR Loop to Draw a Rosette
• Modifying a FOR Loop
• Adding User Input in Turtle: Rosette Gone Wild!
• Special Guest Lesson: Alex's Colorful Rosette Loop
• The WHILE Loop: 'Til it ain't so!
• A Family Spiral
• Multi-Spiral: Spiral Goes Viral!
• S4P1 Programming Challenge Solution: Spiral Rosettes!
• S4P2 Programming Challenge Solution: Viral Family Spiral!

• Intro to Conditions: What If?
• If Statements
• Comparison Operators
• If Example: Old Enough
• Else Statements
• Polygons or Rosettes
• Even or Odd
• Elif Statements
• Complex Conditions: And's, Or's, & Not's
• Secret Messages: The Caesar Cipher
• Encoder Decoder Program
• Section 5 Programming Challenges
• S5P1 Programming Challenge Solution: Rosettes and Spirals!
• S5P2 Programming Challenge Solution: Encoder Decoder Key!

• Intro to Random Numbers and More in Python
• A Guessing Game
• Colorful Random Spirals
• Canvas Size and Coordinates in Turtle Graphics
• The Random Spiral Program
• Rock-Paper-Scissors
• Dealing Cards
• Comparing Cards
• The Game Loop to Keep It Going
• Our Finished High-Card Game
• Rolling Dice
• Testing for a Yahtzee!
• Our Finished Five Dice Game
• A Colorful Kaleidoscope
• S6P1 Programming Challenge Solution: Kaleidoscope v2.0
• S6P2 Programming Challenge Solution: Kaleidoscope v3.0
• S6P3 Programming Challenge Solution: WAR!

• Intro to Functions in Python
• Putting Code Together with Functions
• Creating a Random Spiral Function
• Parameters: Feeding Our Pet Function...
• Smileys at Random Locations
• Our Random Smiley App
• Return: It's What You Give Back those Counts...
• Using Return Values in a Program
• Handling Events: Turtle Draw
• Special Guest Lesson: Max's Turtle Draw App
• Keyboard Events: Arrow Draw
• Events with Parameters: ClickSpiral
• Click and Smile
• Click Kaleidoscope
• EXTRA: Taking Screenshots on Mac and PC
• S7P1 Programming Challenge Solution: Mirrored Smileys!
• S7P2 Programming Challenge Solution: PingPong Calc 2.0
• S7P3 Programming Challenge Solution: Click+Arrow Draw!

• Where to Go Next
• Dr. Payne's TEDx Talk on Coding and Cyber as the New Literacy
• SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE: Rainbow Rosettes with Guest Star, Alex Payne!

April Turtle Gallery BONUS VIDEO: Roy G. Biv Spiral!!!