Is there someone in your life you’d like to inspire to learn Python? Mission Encodeable is a website designed to teach people to code, built by two high-school students. This week on the show, Anna and Harry Wake talk about creating their site and motivating people to start coding.

We discuss why they decided to build the site. Anna and Harry initially felt that the site would be for other students but soon realized it could be helpful for anyone interested in starting to code in Python. We cover the project-based approach and how they implemented the interactive browser-based tool replit.com.

We talk about learning Python in the classroom and how they found additional books and tutorials to supplement their coding education. Anna and Harry also created a resource hub to help teachers take advantage of the site.

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Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:17 – Personal backgrounds 00:02:51 – What’s the goal for the site? 00:03:54 – How did you come up with the idea? 00:05:08 – Where have you shared it? 00:06:39 – Projects for each level 00:09:28 – How has the response been? 00:10:10 – Using replit 00:12:56 – Sponsor: CData Software 00:13:37 – Design of the site and other tools to create it 00:15:49 – Learning Python and classes at school 00:17:41 – Did remote school inspire more online exploration? 00:19:16 – Myths of how kids learn programming 00:23:32 – More about projects 00:27:57 – Video Course Spotlight 00:29:27 – What other areas of Python do you want to explore? 00:33:08 – Teachers using the site 00:37:11 – What other resources have you used to learn Python? 00:38:52 – What are you excited about in the world of Python? 00:40:01 – What do you want to learn next? 00:42:06 – Thanks and goodbye

Show Links:

Mission Encodeable | Free coding tutorials for young people Replit - The collaborative browser based IDE Make Your First Python Game: Rock, Paper, Scissors! – Real Python Figma: the collaborative interface design tool. React – A JavaScript library for building user interfaces Coding with Minecraft - Al Sweigart The Recursive Book of Recursion - Al Sweigart Codewars - Achieve mastery through coding practice and developer mentorship Advent of Code 2021 Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python 3 – Real Python Python Arcade Craig’n’Dave “Unscripted” - Mission Encodeable - YouTube Hello World issue 19 — Hello World LearningDust: LearningDust 3.15 - Anna & Harry Wake Teaching Python Episode 93: Mission Encodeable Mission Encodeable (@missionencode) / Twitter

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