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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>John, have you taken a look at pyglet? It's an alternative to pygame and I found it pretty slick once I got the hang of it. There is a development version that's compatible with python 3 and I've never had a bug with it. It wraps OpenGL itself so there are no additional dependencies.<BR><br><br><br>// joseph w. clark , phd , visiting research associate<br>\\ university of nebraska at omaha - college of IS&T<br> <BR><div>> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:49:40 -0700<br>> Subject: Homework help requested, thanks to everyone.<br>> From: john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net<br>> To: python-list@python.org<br>> <br>> Thanks to everyone for their wealth of suggestions. I already had my students playing with turtle. And I had asked them to alphabetize a string (without having previously revealed the sorted() function).<br>> <br>> So far, I have taken up the suggestion of the number-guessing game. One of my students has a working version. The logic is a bit clumsy, but it's a fine first attempt.<br>> <br>> I will also take up the Twenty Questions idea. My son and I played that game a lot over the years, to pass the time on long car rides. And it would be a great way to introduce the binary tree data structure.<br>> <br>> Another project I thought of was a Pig Latin translator. (But do kids today even know what Pig Latin is? Am I showing my age?)<br>> <br>> Concerning more advanced, real-time, game-oriented graphics, I am trying to figure out how to build PyGame on top of Python3.x. Supposedly it is possible. I just haven't figured out how. It's 2013: I refuse to complicate my students' programming education with Python 2.x.<br>> <br>> I used wxPython happily for years, and I think that its graphical capabilities would probably be up to the task of a simple 2D game. Unfortunately, it has the same problem as PyGame, at least for now. The Py3-compatible version of wxPython, to be known as Phoenix, is still under development.<br>> <br>> I'll keep Unity, Panda3D, and Blender in mind for later. Again, one of my main concerns will be Python 3.x compatibility.<br>> -- <br>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list<br></div> </div></body>
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