Yuval Greenfield wrote: > What do you guys think about including a very simple game with the standard > library?
Great idea ! > My very first lines of code were modifications to a QBasic game called > "nibbles" which came with QBasic. A memory dear to my heart and CV. The > world has changed and nowadays it's much easier to download whatever, > though I think this would still be useful for our younger downloaders: > > * As a reason to poke and tinker around c:\python33\Lib\ or > /usr/lib/python3.3/ > * To give a simple, sample Tk app. > * "import turtle" is nice but at 4K lines, we can do simpler. Also, as a > game it's mainly interesting for a very young demographic I believe. > * A simple, fun, readable, moddable, Tk game is possible at 200-400 lines > or about 10KB of uncompressed code. > * As another neat "Python is fun" example, à la "import antigravity" -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 16 2012) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2012-08-25: FrOSCon, St. Augustin, Germany ... 9 days to go ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
