Introducing Project Zygote presentation for Project Zygote

1. Introducing Project
Zygote (working title)
Picademy, Pi Towers
15th July 2014
Ashley, Ben, Joshua and Heidi

2. Vision
To provide a fun and creative environment on
the Raspberry Pi to aid children learning
programming and more general Computer
Science concepts.

3. Target Audience
● Age group - 11-12 year olds
● Environment - Semi-supervised learning
outside the classroom e.g. after school
clubs or at home.
● Experience - may have had exposure to
visual block-based programming such as
Scratch. Not assuming any prior experience.

4. The Zygote Approach :-)
● Open world game - programming skills
(game metaphor) applied in new contexts,
problem solving & creativity
● Guided challenges - to introduce/refresh
programming concepts
● Optimised for the Pi
● Broad appeal - not your typical computer
game, e.g. catering for range of abilities
and gender neutral theme

5. Video Demo...

6. What’s next?
● Large scrolling maps
● Implement the challenges for school pupils
to test and provide feedback
● expand the python API from just walking to
interacting with objects and the map

7. Questions & Comments ?
Jot ideas on
your Post It
Notes!
Proposed discussion points:
● Some user-friendly constructs such as repeat
n times for for x in range(0, n) ?
● Skeleton code with comments to guide the
students
● Ability range of students aged 11 to 12
● Errors and error messages: how to present
these to the students?

8. Stay in touch
We’d really like a couple of you to stay in
touch to help us with this or to help get some
children to test it out and give feedback
If you’re interested, please come chat to us
afterwards
@ProjectZygote
heidi-ann/zygote