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Python for kids

This section is for young future Lino developers. You’ll probably need somebody to help you with getting started.

Turtle

• Playing with Turtle https://gitlab.com/lino-framework/book/-/tree/master/docs/dev/newbies/turtle1.py

• More free games in Turtle : http://www.grantjenks.com/docs/freegames/

• See also the official turtle docs

tkinter

• A “Hello world” program using tkinter: https://gitlab.com/lino-framework/book/-/tree/master/docs/dev/newbies/gui1.py

  This uses the “grid” layout method. The widgets are arranged by placing them in a cell of the grid. The button spans over two cells. Numbering starts with 0 and in the top left corner.

  	col0	col1
  row0	L1	E1
  row1	B

• The “number guessing game” using tkinter: https://gitlab.com/lino-framework/book/-/tree/master/docs/dev/newbies/gui2.py

• See also the official tkinter docs and Frederik Lundh’s Comprehensive list of events and http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_gui_programming.htm