[Edu-sig] Python Physics Sandbox released

I'm very pleased to announce the general release of a Python physics sandbox targeting students in intro programming courses. We teach Python as a first language here and a physics simulation has long been one of the students' favorite labs. But the simulation we were using, while easy to use,

Re: [Edu-sig] Python Physics Sandbox released

, and it's working: > > import pyphysicssandbox as ps > ps.window("ball", 600, 400) > > b1 = ps.ball((100, 0), 30) > ps.run() > > How do I give the ball a horizontal velocity? > > Eric > > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Jay Shaffstall <jsha

Re: [Edu-sig] Python Physics Sandbox released

> > If what you're looking for is a constant velocity, there isn't any way to >> do that right now, but you might play with the ball's gravity and damping >> values to see if you can get the right effect. >> > > Is gravity global to the scene? Maybe it could be toggled on and off, > given zero-G

Re: [Edu-sig] Python Physics Sandbox released

>If you have any Youtubes or screencasts of your project in action, I'm keen to view. Could be I missed a link at your Github. I created a YouTube channel for tutorial screencasts. Just a Hello World type one up there now, but over time I'll add more to explore other features of the sandbox.

Re: [Edu-sig] Python Physics Sandbox released

Version 1.4 has been released and is available for the standard pip install. Constant velocity was added, along with fixing the bug with shape specific gravity. Jay On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Jay Shaffstall <jshaffst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >How do I give the ball a horizon

Re: [Edu-sig] Python Physics Sandbox released

>How do I give the ball a horizontal velocity? The 1.4 development branch on github now has the ability to set a constant velocity for a shape. For example, to move it horizontally right you could use: ball1.velocity = (50, 0) I won't be releasing 1.4 to PyPi until I've tracked down a bug

Re: [Edu-sig] Thonny IDE 2.1 released (with pip GUI and plug-in for BBC micro:bit)

The GUI package manager is very nice! That should make it easier for my students who are trying to install my physics sandbox for my intro class. Some of them struggled with the command line way of adding packages. Jay On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Aivar Annamaa wrote:

Re: [Edu-sig] Lost reference to an online Scratch-like Python environment

This isn't that one, but does support Blockly and Python (along with others), and is browser based. http://reeborg.ca/reeborg.html I use the older offline version in my intro to computer science courses to introduce Python. Jay On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Aivar Annamaa

Re: [Edu-sig] How to define "a Python project"?

> How do your students transfer files between computer lab and their home computers? How do they submit code? Would the concept or "project" simplify this? For the intro class in which I use Thonny, students use USB sticks to copy files and submit via a Blackboard course. The concept of a

[Edu-sig] Re: REPL.IT works great for sharing Python examples

>Along those lines: REPL.IT, favored by many a Python teacher, yet so little explored by me. Like with LinkedIn and so >many of these Web 2.0 tools, we get so many cool features. REPL.IT also supports PyGame in the browser, which is very cool. I use it in my coding camps to let the kids write

[Edu-sig] Programming Code to Braille?

Does anyone have experience providing programming code as Braille for visually impaired students? I'll be meeting with a prospective college student on Tuesday who'll need all visual materials provided in Braille, and I wanted to get a sense of how programs were typically converted. Jay

[Edu-sig] Re: IDE for teaching?

I use Thonny for my intro class at the university level (that class includes non-majors taking the course for general education credit). I quite like PyCharm for CS majors in later courses. Jay On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 2:59 AM Jurgis Pralgauskis < jurgis.pralgaus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > >