Hello Brian,<div>I agree with Vern Ceder thay pygame is the best for your purposes (probably turtle, too, but personally don't know about that). Also, though, thought I'd suggest that you could throw-in some material to illustrate the syntactic similarities between python and javascript. I do a lot of webapp development in javascript, and actually prototype in python all the time. Once built, porting from py -> js is largely trivial. I think this connection is often overlooked for whatever reason. Good luck,</div>
<div>Charles Cosse<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Brian Wilkinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Brian.Wilkinson@ssfs.org">Brian.Wilkinson@ssfs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hello everyone,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Our upper school, looking to beef up their technology offerings, offered an introductory programming course this year using Python. I am normally a technology coordinator, supporting teachers and students, but was tapped to teach this class (which I have thoroughly enjoyed so far). The purpose of this course is to try and get kids excited about programming and so I would like to teach them a bit about graphics and GUI’s. My initial thought was just to have them work with tkinter, as that (to me) seems the easiest path. After doing some reading, it looks as though wxPython and pyQt are popular options as well.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">So finally to the questions:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">1) Is teaching basic graphics too ambitious for an introductory course?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2) If the answer to #1 is no, do folks out there have suggestions for the best tool to use with the students?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have enjoyed reading this group this year. It has been a big help.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Brian Wilkinson<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sandy Spring Friends School<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Technology Resource Coordinator<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, <i>however improbable</i>, must be the truth.”<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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