PyTamaro Academy

PyTamaro Academy @ USI in Lugano

Workshops to support teachers who consider using PyTamaro in their classroom.

Upcoming Editions

Are you interested in participating in one of our workshops to learn how to teach programming in an engaging but deep way? Would you like to bring along a group of fellow teachers? For a day? Or two? Or an entire week? Contact us to see whether we can organize a PyTamaro Academy workshop for you!

Prior Editions

PyTamaro Academy for ZCUOctober 2024

A one-day workshop for 16 Czech pre-service and in-service teachers and teacher trainers.

PyTamaro Summer AcademyJuly 2024

A week-long summer course for 6 Swiss high school and middle school teachers.

PyTamaro Summer AcademyAugust 2023

A week-long summer course for 16 Swiss high & middle school teachers and students.

Problem Solving
Learn programming by decomposing graphics and recomposing them as programs.
Theory & Creativity
Experience the sound theoretical foundations of programming combined with the unbounded creativity and playfulness of computer graphics.
Python & PyTamaro
Use the most prevalent programming language, Python, and the greatest (we think) educational graphics library, PyTamaro.

Programming: Deep like Mathematics, Creative like Art

Theoretical FoundationsConnect to Algebra and Logic

The contents is informed by concepts from algebra you might know from middle school, all the way to abstract algebra and logic one would learn at university.

Creativity & Playfulness(De)Compose Art, Design, and Games

Starting with the composition of simple geometric shapes, we will end up composing graphics inspired by contemporary art, design, and game design.

Location

The PyTamaro Academy workshops take place at USI, the Università della Svizzera italiana, in beautiful Lugano. The USI Campus is within walking distance from the lake and the city center. There are trains, cable cars, and gondolas up many of the nearby mountains, several of them easily reachable on foot or by public transportation.

Photo of Tamaro-Lema Hike, View of Lugano

Lugano is full of hotels, many of them within walking distance from USI. Some examples are Hotel City, right next to campus, Hotel Lido Seegarten, at the lake front, and Hotel Zurigo Downtown and Hotel Pestalozzi, in the city center. And the Youth Hostel Lugano Savosa has a swimming pool and palm trees, and includes breakfast! Like a hotel, but unlike AirBnBs, it also includes a Ticino Ticket for free public transportation within Ticino.

The PyTamaro Academy is organized by the Lugano Computing Education Research Lab (LuCE) at the Software Institute of the Faculty of Informatics at USI.

For more information contact Matthias.Hauswirth@usi.ch.

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PyTamaro is a project created by the Lugano Computing Education Research Lab at the Software Institute of USI