Python for Kids – Beep & Pixel

Write your very first Python program and make a turtle draw a square on the screen.

Use print to make Python say things, and learn how to glue pieces of text together.

Learn how variables remember things for you, and use them to do maths and change a drawing.

Make your programs ask questions with input, and learn how to turn typed answers into numbers.

Teach your programs to choose between different actions with if, elif and else, then build a robot mood program and…

Use for loops, range and colour lists to count, repeat and draw spirals with the turtle.

Store lots of things in one variable with a list, then add to it, count it, pick items from it…

Invent your own commands with def, give them parameters, and use them to draw stars and flowers.

Use Python’s random module to roll dice, flip coins, tell fortunes and scatter confetti.

Learn the while loop, which repeats until something changes, and build a countdown and a guess-the-number game.