Hi Python is an excellent choice.
More important than a good editor is ipython to interactively try out stuff and explore. My Editor is SublimeText (it's not free) but before that, I was happy with Text Wrangler. I hear that Text Mate 2 gets better. Some use IDLE for teaching, but I don't like the look. On 07.04.2013, at 02:13, Chris Weisiger <cweisi...@msg.ucsf.edu> wrote: > My recommendation would be to go with PyGame, but as you note this does > require some installation work. Unfortunately as soon as you start getting > into being a software developer, the kid gloves come off and you have to > learn a lot about how software works. I'm not aware of any one-stop > user-friendly installer that will get you up and running in Python with an > eye towards games. My best advice is to do the installation for him. > > -Chris > > > On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 4:22 PM, John Velman <vel...@cox.net> wrote: > I've looked at PyGames, and done a little other googling, and every place > I've looked says install this, install that, use Home Brew, use Ports, > don't use Ports, be sure and set such and such an option, be sure and get a > version greater than x.y...Things that I might do, but I've been at this, > at least part time, more or less forever. I happen to be a homebrew core dev and additionally I maintain a [special set of python software](https://github.com/samueljohn/homebrew-python) that is otherwise hard to install because of the dependencies. Among other things I have PyGame in there. So if you give [homebrew](http://brew.sh) a chance: * Install as written on http://brew.sh: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)" * brew tap samueljohn/python # making my python formulae available * brew install python * brew install gfortran * pip install nose # nose is not in Homebrew because its lightweight pure python * brew tap homebrew/headonly # needed for smpeg. Homebrew will * brew install pygame > We need something than one can just do, and then learn while doing. Well, > something Mac like. We hope to make homebrew as Mac like as a command line tool can get :-) Feel free to mail me personally or ping me on twitter if you encounter difficutlies in the install steps outlined above. cheers, Samuel _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
