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Blender for 3D is what Postgres is for databases. It's really an exceptional piece of open source software and totally stands out. There's not many software projects like this.

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I will go one step further and say they should teach kids Python using Blender. Such a powerful tool and so many learning possibilities.

I've started teaching my (homeschooled, 10yo) son Python, and he's been briefly exposed to some 3D software (including Blender).

I'm curious: how do you imagine this working? Can you name a few examples of the learning possibilities that you have in mind?

blender has a python api and everything you can do in blender can be replicated with scripts. for a start you can draw geometric shapes to show variables and a for loop.

except extruding with scale restrictions: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/87165/python-scr...

Not just “it has an API”, but it has the most discoverable API I’ve ever seen - if you go into the settings menu and enable “python tooltips”, then hovering over any button or input widget will give you instructions for how to activate or modify the value programatically :D

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