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 >> > [email protected] >> > 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 _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
