PIE
Python Interactive Education
Our goal: To change the
way computer programming
is taught to beginners
The Old Way
Command Line
"Graphics"
But they were expecting to make
something like this ...
Introducing
PyBotWar!
To further increase PyBotWar's value, we are going to be facilitating international tournaments that allow schools to send forth their best robots to compete against other schools.
What's wrong with
the way it's taught
now?
In the early stages of programming, Students spend hours producing
programs that reproduce formulas
in their math textbooks, or at best
recreate games like tic-tac-toe or
hangman.  Hardly exciting.
This is what the next generation
thinks of when they think of
computer programs!  No wonder
they're disappointed with text-
based projects
PyBotWar turns learning to code into a game.  In PyBotWar, you program an autonomous robot tank.  Each tank can fire bullets or explosive shells, and have a wide range of sensors from which to detect it's opponents.  Up to 8 students can battle with each other!
Students still get to program in math formulas, but now it has context.  Rather than just calculating the length of some random hypotenuse, students use the Pythagorean Theorem to figure out how far away their opponent is so they can blast them to smithereens!
Students can compete against each other
or against an army of pre-programmed 
robots that ship with the program.  Students
from around the world can easily share
their robot designs and compete for world
dominance!
All of a sudden, programming is fun again!
Python Interactive Education
Making programming as
easy as, well, you know.