Teach teens computing: Programming in Python

Sign-ups for this course on edX are closing on the 16 February 2026 and it will be removed from edX on 31 March 2026. A free, updated version of the course is available now on our new Training Hub. You can access the updated course there today . We hope to see you on the Training Hub soon. --- With the help of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, this course will guide you through basic programming concepts and teach you how to write Python programs that respond to a user's input, perform calculations, and solve problems. Over the 4 weeks of the course you'll work on creating your own text-based adventure game. As you become more confident with your programming, you'll progress to making more of your own choices about how you'll meet a design brief. Along the way you'll also experience other specific pedagogical approaches that you can use to help learners build their code comprehension skills, such as the Predict–Run–Investigate–Modify–Make (PRIMM) approach. You'll also learn how to tackle everything from the overall programming task to how to work on specific lines of code. 3b:T10d2

• Explore basic programming concepts such as sequencing and repetition
• Identify use cases for 'for' and 'while' loops, 'if' statements, and functions
• Apply your knowledge of basic Python syntax to interpret error messages
• Produce a text-based adventure game