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In particular, "A Newbie Guide to pygame" is woefully outdated. Honestly, it was outdated enough back when I was reading it for the first time in 2011 that I made a version with a bunch of comments correcting its advice.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] pygame with SDL2 proposal

2017-03-18 Thread bw
Hi, thanks for inviting me to opine. :) I like it. But "import pygumm" looks a lot more handsome than "import pygame2". Seriously. Having had much recent experience with a SDL2 implementation (pypy, CFFI, plus all the SDL2 libs), I found that I would really like to see in the next

Re: [pygame] No confirm instructions sent?

2017-03-18 Thread bw
Hi, again. 4:35 AM UTC, Internal Server Error I filled in every field, and selected the image. I tried to click that Continue button just right...but alas. :) On 3/17/2017 10:31 PM, René Dudfield wrote: Hi again, that's fixed now. cheers, On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 4:30 AM, bw

[pygame] spam report

2017-03-18 Thread René Dudfield
Hello, it looks like the spammers have finally been stopped(so far). - nofollow on links - spam classifier for comments - check new signups against spam black lists - cloudflare web app firewall in front - limit number of signup attempts to 4/hour at flask level - better email

[pygame] pygame with SDL2 proposal

2017-03-18 Thread René Dudfield
Hello, so, I've spent some more time reading source code, and investigating SDL2 and the options a lot. I *think* this plan below could be the best way forward for us. tldr; * have a single source SDL1, and SDL2 code base with a compile time option. (like we have single source py2 and py3). *

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