[Edu-sig] Writing presentation manager for OSCON, in Pygame

[Guido van Rossum]

At EuroPython I saw several PyGame-based presentations. Armin Rigo has
been doing this for years and with impressive results (visualizing
Greenlets for example). But the best one I saw was Gustavo Niemeyer's
Solving Puzzles with Python:
http://www.python-in-business.org/ep2005/talk.chtml?talk=1194&track=687

Very cool visalizations of the puzzles and their solutions.

On 7/18/05, Dethe Elza <delza at livingcode.org> wrote:
> At the Vancouver Python Conference last year, Paul Prescod joked that
> I was the only one writing my own presentation software.  I also used
> PyGame, but in my case each "slide" was a mini-game (or game-in-
> progress).  I'll note that it was the last time I ever used PyGame
> and I would have abandoned it sooner if I hadn't committed to doing a
> presentation about it.  It reminded me of doing programming on the
> Mac in the 68K days, when you had to write your own main loop, your
> own event management, etc.  Very primitive.  If I need slide-show
> type presentations these days, I tend to go with S5[1] using Safari
> or Firefox.
> 
> On the other hand, the next presentation I did for Paul (at the
> VanPyZ monthly meeting last February), I wrote the presentation
> software using Cocoa (OS X framework), Python, XML, and Renaissance
> (framework for turning XML into Cocoa UI).  So perhaps I am a glutton
> for punishment.

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