On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Andre Roberge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/16 Albert Sweigart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [snip] >> >> My book (Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python) focuses on complete >> examples of games, and explain programming principles from them. The games >> are simple (text-based ASCII art graphics, no GUIs or images) and complete >> (the longest is about 400 lines, including whitespace). The book is designed >> to be easy enough for 9 to 12 year olds to understand.
Schoolchildren in the One Laptop Per Child program are writing graphical games in PyGame. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pygame http://www.olpcnews.com/content/games/laptop_game_jam.html >> The book, in HTML and PDF format, and all the games are located here: >> http://pythonbook.coffeeghost.net >> >> I'm planning on doing more books at some point in the future after getting >> feedback. >> > First of all, thank you for your work and making this available. > > I first saw a link to your book on del.icio.us and read *quickly* > through a few sections of a few chapters. My first reaction was "hmm, > no graphics ... I wonder how that would interest kids nowadays...". > However, after looking at the beginning of the last two chapters, I > thought that this approach could very well work. > > Overall, it looked like a good progression of topics and something > very much worthwhile. Still, I think that it might be useful to > include at least one graphics based game. I would suggest to > implement the Othello program using pyglet (www.pyglet.org), > introducing it at the very end. Actually, I would have the kids > download the finished Othello project and pyglet at the beginning, > just to try it out, and point out that this is the game that they > would be writing on their own at the end. > > Just a thought... I should read it more closely to give you some > more detailed feedback. > > Cheers, > > André > > >> Thank you! >> Al Sweigart >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Edu-sig mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
