Sophia comes into Jacob ‘s room and sees

him working on a computer. Sophia is a teenager and her older brother Jacob is

a programming engineer in an IT company.

She enquires what he is doing and Jacob tells her that he is writing

code in Python. Sophia is confused, so Jacob explains to her what a computer

program is and that Python is basically a programming language.  He also explains what a programming language

is and points out the benefits of using Python over other languages. He gets Sophia

excited about learning to code by telling her that if she knows how to code, she

can create interactive animations and even create games. Sophia then requests Jacob

to teach her how to code in Python.

Jacob teaches Sophia how to install Python on

her computer. He also introduces her to the IDLE shell and explains some of its

benefits. Finally, he lets Sophia type out a simple “Hello World” program, and

teaches her how to run it and save it. Sophia is quite proud of herself at the

end of the session, and Jaco