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 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 >> >> > [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 >> > > > -- 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
