I used [1] above as the basis for a few sessions at our local coderdojo, it gave an opportunity to get the kids to hack some python and get visually interesting

I used [1] above as the basis for a few sessions at our local coderdojo, it gave an opportunity to get the kids to hack some python and get visually interesting results. http://damianmooney.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/a-maze-in-python/ http://damianmooney.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/a-maze-in-pytho... is the kind of thing we ended up working on