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Python for Education

Aims

• prefer free and open but accept paid software
• safe and manageable for a primary or secondary school setting
• easy to install and use
• significant and long-term educational value

Selection criteria:

• Browser first, Windows second, Mac good to have

Python Environment

Set up a python environment

For a IT or programming class

• PyCharm Community or PyCharm Pro (Free for education)
• PythonAnywhere (web development)
• Anvil.works (web-based GUI)

For a Maths or Data Analysis class

• WinPython (Windows)
• Ananconda (Mac)

Online Python Environment

MakeCode

Edublocks

Making the transition from Scratch to Python easier http://edublocks.org

Also considering MIT Scratch as alternative

Simple Scripting or Calculation

• thonny

Learning by Doing

• Jupyter Notebook for Education

File Sharing

https://github.com/giampaolo/pyftpdlib

GUI

conda search tk --channel conda-forge

Office

• https://github.com/Bouke/docx-mailmerge
• https://github.com/ZoomerAnalytics/xlwings
• https://github.com/scanny/python-pptx
• https://github.com/python-openxml/python-docx

Repo

https://github.com/Logan1x/Python-Scripts