Hello Brian, I agree with Vern Ceder thay pygame is the best for your purposes (probably turtle, too, but personally don't know about that). Also, though, thought I'd suggest that you could throw-in some material to illustrate the syntactic similarities between python and javascript. I do a lot of webapp development in javascript, and actually prototype in python all the time. Once built, porting from py -> js is largely trivial. I think this connection is often overlooked for whatever reason. Good luck, Charles Cosse
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Brian Wilkinson <brian.wilkin...@ssfs.org>wrote: > Hello everyone,**** > > ** ** > > Our upper school, looking to beef up their technology offerings, offered > an introductory programming course this year using Python. I am normally a > technology coordinator, supporting teachers and students, but was tapped to > teach this class (which I have thoroughly enjoyed so far). The purpose of > this course is to try and get kids excited about programming and so I would > like to teach them a bit about graphics and GUI’s. My initial thought was > just to have them work with tkinter, as that (to me) seems the easiest > path. After doing some reading, it looks as though wxPython and pyQt are > popular options as well.**** > > ** ** > > So finally to the questions:**** > > ** ** > > 1) Is teaching basic graphics too ambitious for an introductory course?*** > * > > 2) If the answer to #1 is no, do folks out there have suggestions for the > best tool to use with the students?**** > > ** ** > > I have enjoyed reading this group this year. It has been a big help.**** > > ** ** > > Brian Wilkinson**** > > Sandy Spring Friends School**** > > Technology Resource Coordinator**** > > ** ** > > “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, *however > improbable*, must be the truth.”**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > -- AsymptopiaSoftware|Software@theLimit http://www.asymptopia.org
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