[Edu-sig] Python Reloaded?

[Vern Ceder]

It depends on how motivated the kids are and how much time you've got, 
but I would tend to agree with the teacher - in my experience that 
amount of setup is likely to lose a fair number of them. One option 
might be GASP, which puts a LiveWires wrapper around pygame.

Vern

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> How old are your students? We are considering pygame, but the teacher
> is taken aback by the large amount of setup code needed. Also, running
> programs using pygame from IDLE on a Mac seems flaky.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Winston Wolff <winstonw at stratolab.com> wrote:
>> My students love anything to do with graphics.  Even making a white
>>  rectangle on the screen and then redrawing it in red is cool.  Also
>>  they love transparency--with PyGame, you can set the alpha and they
>>  love that.
>>
>>  -Winston
>>
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>>  On Feb 26, 2008, at 9:09 PM, Brian Blais wrote:
>>
>>  > On Feb 26, 2008, at Feb 26:8:22 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>  >
>>  >> PS. Just watched two groups of 8th grade middle school girls go
>>  >> through their first Python class. Cool! (That's what they said too.
>>  >> :-)
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > What did they cover in that class?  I'd be curious to know what 8th
>>  > graders consider "cool", after 1 class of programming.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >                       bb
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>>  > --
>>  > Brian Blais
>>  > bblais at bryant.edu
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