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
- 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 & PyTamaroUse the most prevalent programming language, Python, and the greatest (we think) educational graphics library, PyTamaro.
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.
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
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