Tara P writes:
I am going to be teaching Python 2 this coming school year and I am looking for a supplemental learning tool and projects for myself and my students. Will your book Python for Kids work with Python 2?
I saw that it is recommended to use Python 3 however the curriculum I am teaching we are to use Python 2. I am not familiar enough with Python to know if the code language is different enough between them where your book will not be useful for me?
The short answer is no, it is not really designed to work with Python 2. The longer answer is that most of the code samples will work, but there are subtle differences between the two versions that may make it a little more difficult to get things working properly. There are some obvious differences (such as the tkinter module being called Tkinter in Python 2), which are straightforward to deal with and explain, but the more complicated the code, the more likely you are to hit issues that are less obvious, and as a consequence, cause frustrating errors for your students (I'm thinking more of the games in the later chapters, which aren't tested with Python2, and may either fail or hang).
While moving from Python 2 to 3 is not enormously difficult, it's not necessarily something I would recommend for learners coming to a programming language for the first time.