Xing Y writes:
This is Xing Yanchao from the city of Qingdao, Shandong province, China, a big beautiful coastal city with 7 million citizens. I'm very interested in teaching kids to program, and plan to choose your book as the teaching material (In Chinese, ^_^). The kids may be between 8~12, how many hours do you suggest for us to finish the whole book?
Thank you in advance!
I think at least an hour a chapter for Part 1 of the book, but the chapters on functions, modules, classes and objects will probably take a bit longer. 12-15 hours is probably reasonable to cover most of Part 1 in a classroom setting, especially considering there should be a bit of time for kids to play around and try things for themselves, rather than following it exactly. Learn through play is important, particularly with a subject that can be pretty dry. Parts 2 and 3 are more difficult to estimate. I would actually suggest to just use Part 1 in the class, then let the kids come up with projects for themselves, and use the last two parts of the book as a reference (for example, let them create something for themselves, but use chapters 13-18 to figure out some of what they decide to do). Just a thought.