This project has since been superceded by our use of CodeCombat.com and our own Python-0 and Python-1 offerings which teach real, typed Python the way college students and professions use it, from the Linux Bash command line. (Python IDLE sees far less actual use in the real world.)
This repo contains the puzzles from the Introduction to Computer Science on code.org written in Python3 suitable for any learning environment requiring only vanilla Python3 to be installed. This includes the default Raspberry Pi setup. It was created to supplement or replace the Blockly activities for those ready to actually write code. [Students 'create' code with Blockly they don't really 'write' it.]
Students fork this repo or download the zip and complete the puzzles with a vanilla installation of Python on their local computer. Student code solutions are checked when they run their code against a saved solution (in JSON format stored in a puzzles directory). Detailed descriptions from code.org for each puzzle are included as long comments at the beginning of each puzzle script. If students get stuck they can refer to the solutions. Teachers can easily create additional puzzles for which the solutions are not available for more formal assessments if needed.
As students progress in their porting to more complicated puzzles that require use and creation of functions they put them into their own version of the mymod.py module file.
Finally students can create their own puzzles for themselves and others by contributing to the extra collection, which may eventually become its own site to students to puzzles each other.
The codestudio library module on which these puzzles are based contains tools to help create new puzzles easily as well as visualize puzzles and solutions. The steps to create your own puzzles are outlined in extras with examples. The module itself has been designed to serve as a basis for learning Python modules, object-oriented-programming, packaging, geometry/trigonometry functions, domain modeling, separation of concerns, exception handling, test-driven development, basic GUI development, cross-platform audio programming, JSON and more.
All code and assets are released under the same terms as the code-dot-org materials. We have collaborated closely with the project team there.