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Report after the first two lessons: going well. Two kids are already ahead of me, which I'm told is the goal. "Draw your name" with the turtle was the best bit. Typing is exactly the problem teo said it'd be.

A list is one of the two structures the rest of computer science is built from. I'm obviously biased.

"everybody online" has never shipped anything

The Linux kernel uses them all over the place. Most application code shouldn't, since arrays win on cache behaviour. You should know both and why.

Yes you need them, because of the interview and because of the 30 minutes it takes you to learn what a pointer is. It's not going to take long, stop asking.

Second year. Prof says yes. Everybody online says nobody uses them, use arrays. Am I wasting my time?

Thonny as the editor, turtle for the first few weeks, micro:bits at the end if the budget allows. Thanks everyone. I'll report back.

I ran a club for this age group some years back. Scratch for the ones who haven't, Python for the ones who are bored by Scratch, and let them see each other's work. Micro:bits went down extremely well, because a physical thing lights up.

Python with the turtle module, or pygame zero if you're brave. Typing's the real barrier at that age, not the concepts.

Do they want to make something or learn to program? For an hour a week I'd want them to have made a thing that moves by the end of week one.

I've somehow become the coding person at school now. Have about 25 kids, an hour a week, one term. Half have used Scratch. Any experience with this?