<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Yuval Greenfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubershmekel@gmail.com" target="_blank">ubershmekel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>What do you guys think about including a very simple game with the standard library?</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So this is the kind of thing that would lead to arguments about "what game?" The general concept works for me, though if something can be agreed upon.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div>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:<div>
<br></div><div>* As a reason to poke and tinker around c:\python33\Lib\ or /usr/lib/python3.3/</div><div>* To give a simple, sample Tk app.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That does screw over OS X users since their version of Tk by default is crap unless you also provide a non-GUI version.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Brett C.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>* "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.</div>
<div>* A simple, fun, readable, moddable, Tk game is possible at 200-400 lines or about 10KB of uncompressed code.</div><div>* As another neat "Python is fun" example, à la "import antigravity"</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>Yuval Greenfield</div></font></span></div>
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