Re: [Edu-sig] Python Reloaded?

2008-02-27 Thread Winston Wolff
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,

Re: [Edu-sig] Python Reloaded?

2008-02-27 Thread Guido van Rossum
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

Re: [Edu-sig] Python Reloaded?

2008-02-27 Thread Guido van Rossum
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?

Re: [Edu-sig] Python Reloaded?

2008-02-27 Thread 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

Re: [Edu-sig] Python Reloaded?

2008-02-27 Thread Vern Ceder
Have you tried https://launchpad.net/gasp ? That's the latest state of play, even though the version numbers might suggest otherwise... Vern Guido van Rossum wrote: 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