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Draw with Code: Build Your Own Art App

Your child learns Python by making art. In 13 live online sessions they write code that draws spirographs, a Kenyan flag, kanga-inspired tiles, mandalas and a fractal tree, and then build a drawing app of their own that listens to the mouse and can undo. Along the way they learn loops, variables, functions, lists and how to find and fix a bug, and they finish with a Demo Day for family. No coding experience needed. Python and its drawing tool are free and nothing extra needs to be installed once Python is set up in the first session.

20 hours13 chapters81 topicsEnglishAges 12 to 14

No experience at all

What you'll learn

Write and run a Python program using sequence, loops and variables
Write a function with parameters and call it many times with different values
Store data in a list and use it to drive a drawing
Explain recursion and why a function that calls itself needs a stopping point
Find and fix a bug by reading the evidence and testing one change at a time
Share creative work safely and credit work that is not theirs

The course journey

What your child will explore

Follow the course from the first idea to the finished project.

01
Chapter 01
Meet Python and Set Up Your Studio
Set up the editor, write, run and save a first Python program.
- Hook
- I do — why this workshop exists
- We do — install Thonny safely
- I do — first syntax
- We do — save a dependable first file
- You do — Studio welcome card
- Show & tell
- Wrap and checkpoint
02
Chapter 02
Hello, Turtle: Colour, Fill and Your First Picture
Move the turtle, then fill shapes with colour and layer them into a first picture.
- Hook
- I do
- We do
- You do
- Show & tell
- Wrap
03
Chapter 03
Milestone 1: The Loop That Draws and Spirograph
Use a loop to draw polygons, then a loop that rotates a whole shape into a poster-quality spirograph.
- Hook
- I do — the loop
- I do — the milestone idea
- We do
- You do
- Show & tell
- Wrap

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Draw with Code: Build Your Own Art App

What you'll learn

What your child will explore

Meet Python and Set Up Your Studio

Hello, Turtle: Colour, Fill and Your First Picture

Milestone 1: The Loop That Draws and Spirograph

There's more to explore