Re: [pygame] teaching resources

2017-03-23 Thread René Dudfield
Thanks everyone. To summarise... - A teaching resources page, which has and links to resources that teachers can use. - Link to: - Paul's proven python pygame resource. - raspberrypi - microbit - community.computingatschool.org.uk/resources/4952 - other

Re: [pygame] teaching resources

2017-03-19 Thread René Dudfield
Good point. Ian Mallet has already made a whole bunch of little improvements to the docs. https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/pull-requests/76 I'll leave this other suggestion for the docs here... - Divide the docs top navigation up into two parts. 'core' important basics, and 'extras'. So

Re: [pygame] teaching resources

2017-03-18 Thread Daniel Foerster
In particular, "A Newbie Guide to pygame" is woefully outdated. Honestly, it was outdated enough back when I was reading it for the first time in 2011 that I made a version with a bunch of comments correcting its advice. I don't use Pygame much these days, but it'd be great if someone who is would

Re: [pygame] teaching resources

2017-03-18 Thread René Dudfield
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Paul Vincent Craven wrote: > I've worked on http://programarcadegames.com for about 7 years now. I've > led hundreds of students through the material, updated it, and improved it > every week. With the examples, translations, and videos,

Re: [pygame] teaching resources

2017-03-18 Thread René Dudfield
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Craig Maloney wrote: > * René Dudfield (ren...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A teacher sent me a photo of a wall showing drawings the kids all made > with > > pygame and printed the other day. He did it for a drawing class. Another > >

Re: [pygame] teaching resources

2017-03-18 Thread René Dudfield
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Ian Mallett wrote: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 4:20 AM, René Dudfield wrote: > >> Whilst there are now more than a dozen books, and video series in many >> languages for teaching pygame, I'd like to include a new section on

Re: [pygame] teaching resources

2017-03-18 Thread Paul Vincent Craven
I've worked on http://programarcadegames.com for about 7 years now. I've led hundreds of students through the material, updated it, and improved it every week. With the examples, translations, and videos, I really think it is the best quality educational resource for Pygame out there. I know I'm

Re: [pygame] teaching resources

2017-03-18 Thread René Dudfield
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Radomir Dopieralski wrote: > It's still a work in progress, but there is: > http://pythonineducation.org/ > Oh, cool.

Re: [pygame] teaching resources

2017-03-18 Thread Craig Maloney
* René Dudfield (ren...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hello, > > A teacher sent me a photo of a wall showing drawings the kids all made with > pygame and printed the other day. He did it for a drawing class. Another > did a class with 'sound boards', where the kids jumped around on the dance > mats making

Re: [pygame] teaching resources

2017-03-18 Thread Ian Mallett
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 4:20 AM, René Dudfield wrote: > Whilst there are now more than a dozen books, and video series in many > languages for teaching pygame, I'd like to include a new section on the > website for educational resources for teachers. Or even better, to be able

Re: [pygame] teaching resources

2017-03-18 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
It's still a work in progress, but there is: http://pythonineducation.org/ On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 11:20:04 +0100 René Dudfield wrote: > Hello, > > Whilst there are now more than a dozen books, and video series in many > languages for teaching pygame, I'd like to include a new

[pygame] teaching resources

2017-03-18 Thread René Dudfield
Hello, Whilst there are now more than a dozen books, and video series in many languages for teaching pygame, I'd like to include a new section on the website for educational resources for teachers. Or even better, to be able to point to an existing resource. Not particularly for 'pygame', but