Python in Education

You’re Interested in Learning More

You’ve probably heard about the computing revolution in schools.

Maybe you’ve heard of the Raspberry Pi. In any case, Python is at

the center of these fundamental changes in computing education.

This report arms you with the facts and information you need to

understand where Python sits within this context.

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to Amelia Watkiss, Samuel Tollervey and William Toll‐

ervey for the moment of adventuring into Python captured on the

front cover of this document. Thanks also to Carrie Anne Philbin,

Naomi Ceder and Tim Golden for invaluable feedback on an early

draft. The picture of a fractal tree built in Minecraft was provided by

the extraordinarily creative Martin O’Hanlon. Finally, Meghan

Blanchette has, yet again, been a very patient editor.

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From the foreword to Mark Lutz’s book 

Programming Python

 (1st ed.), published by

O’Reilly. 

http://www.python.org/doc/essays/foreword/