Python for Kids (Basic - Age 10+)
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Join Eddy on a Python Adventure!
Join Eddy on a fun Python adventure guided by Dr Beacon, your friendly coding mentor avatar!
Build games, solve puzzles, and gain coding confidence step by step with animations, interactive projects, and quizzes.
Why This Course is Different
- Expert-led: Content developed by experts with 20+ years of experience in higher education and computer science.
- Systematic & clear: Step-by-step explanations, daily examples, quizzes, exercises, articles, and projects.
- Engaging & fun: Lessons include animations, avatars, and interactive activities designed for kids.
- Curriculum‑aligned: Teaches core programming and problem-solving skills used in computing curricula worldwide.
- Competition‑supportive: Builds coding and problem‑solving skills useful for competitions like Bebras, the Perse Coding Challenge, Young Coders, IKCC, and similar contests.
- Proven results: Students following this approach include a 10-year-old who excelled in the UK Bebras Coding Competition, typically for 13-year-olds.
Your child gets guided, structured lessons, hands-on projects, and competitions-ready skills.
What Your Child Will Achieve
- Build real Python games and animations
- Develop logical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Learn coding concepts clearly and confidently
- Build skills and confidence for Bebras & Perse-style challenges
- Gain confidence by completing real projects
How the Course Works
- Short, fun lessons with animations and avatars
- Hands-on projects: games, animations, apps
- Quizzes and exercises to reinforce learning
- Mini challenges and articles to deepen understanding
- Competition-style problem solving
- Real expert support
Course Overview & Goals
This 10-week course introduces Python in a logical, step-by-step way, with:
- 77 video lessons (3.5+ hours of content)
- 25 practical exercises, 10 interactive quizzes, 5 articles
By the end of the course, your child will be able to:
- Automate simple tasks
- Create interactive programs
- Handle user input and conditional statements
- Use loops to repeat actions
- Organise logic efficiently
- Build games and small applications
Key Learning Outcomes
- Introduction to Python and VS Code setup
- Variables, data types, strings, f-strings
- User input, math operations, and expressions
- Conditional statements for decision-making
- Functions and reusable code
- Loops for repeating tasks
- Developing interactive games
- Applying coding skills to challenges and competitions
All lessons include fun exercises, quizzes, and hands-on projects—so students learn by doing, step by step.
Detailed Course Curriculum
In this 10-week course, students’ll learn Python step by step with Eddy and Dr Beacon. Each week, students will explore new skills and complete fun coding challenges as you follow your learning path.
Opening session: Welcome to Python for Kids (Basic – Age 10+)
Session 1: Introducing Python
Session 2: Variables and data types
Session 3: Working with strings (introducing f-string)
Session 4: User input
Session 5: Basic Math: Operations and Expressions
Session 6: Conditions (if/elif/else)
Session 7: Functions: reusable code
Session 8: Loops (for and while)
Session 9: Fun project: make a simple game
Session 10: Recap and next steps
About the Certificate
Sample Certificate
Learn Python and earn an official certificate from Uni-Beacon! Complete the online assignments and quizzes, and get your certificate digitally once you pass 70% of the quizzes. It will show your name and confirms your successful completion of the course.
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