I'd like to learn more about GASP (and whether it works on OSX) but I am having a hard time finding a recent download link to the sources. Is there someone here who has recently worked with it and remembers where they got it? I've found http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gasp/0.4.5 -- is that the latest?
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Vern Ceder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> 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 > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Brian Blais > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >> > Edu-sig mailing list > >> > Edu-sig@python.org > >> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > >> > >> Winston Wolff > >> Stratolab - Kids exploring computers, comics, and robots > >> (646) 827-2242 - http://stratolab.com > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > > This time for sure! > -Bullwinkle J. Moose > ----------------------------- > Vern Ceder, Director of Technology > Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig