For the past few months I’ve been working on something I call scroll art: a sort of animated ASCII art from terminal programs that generate text art. You can find several examples on my site at https://scrollart.org
Scroll art programs are great beginner programming projects: they’re short, require no additional libraries, and only need a few concepts. I have several examples on the site. They can be done in any language but Python is especially ideal.
I’m trying to come up with ways to employ these into materials that teachers can use: YouTube videos, worksheets, online courses, or books. I’m looking for ideas on formatting and any groups that could use this. I’ve given a talk at PyTexas recently on the subject.
Any ideas?
(Note: The main value in scroll art is it’s simplicity and accessibility to beginners. Please don’t recommend complications: running scroll art on obscure devices or adding interactive features or AI art, etc.)