Introduction and teachers' notes

The Literacy from Python project has evolved from an experiment with story-telling, which started in early 2018. Beth Mead, then aged 11, wrote a short story using Python, set in a classroom, and involving her dog, Maisy, and her Aunt Justine’s cat, Malika. This project in itself was the development of a series of stories, “Stories for Children 2” that she had already written and published in PowerPoint to exemplify some basic computer coding concepts such as Algorithms, Abstraction, Decomposition, Generalisation, Logical Thinking, and If, Then, Else. These PowerPoint stories are now posted, also, on this website. There was then a delay throughout 2018, while we worked on some new projects using Scratch 2 and then, Scratch 3 incorporating Sibelius music files with Lloyd Mead, Lambeth College. Following enthusiastic encouragement from academic colleagues in teacher training, we returned to look at Python this year, 2019, to develop the story-telling idea further.