ANN: Python training "text movies"

Mitya Sirenef msirenef at lightbird.net
Mon Jan 14 01:56:15 EST 2013


On 01/14/2013 01:34 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
> In article <mailman.469.1358088303.2939.python-list at python.org>,
>   Jason Friedman <jason at powerpull.net> wrote:
>
>>> That is right; I would also add that it may be overwhelming for a newbie
>>> to be reading through a large "wall of text" -- here you have blank
>>> space after the current paragraph so the attention is focused even more
>>> on the last few lines.
>>>
>>> Additionally, since instructions scroll automatically, I can space them
>>> out more than you would conventionally do in a manual.
>>>
>> Pretty cool.
> When reading the source of the Web page which shows the scroll,
> I can't find the reference to the text displayed. Only "text"...
> How may we use the software which generates the Javascript ?
> Thanks, it's cool.
>
>      franck

Thanks!

  the text is in var commands = ...

You can download the generator script here:

https://github.com/pythonbyexample/PBE/blob/master/code/jstmovie.py

(you also need to grab  tmovies dir)



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