RE: [Edu-sig] Learn to Program in Ten Years

On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 09:43 -0800, Kirby Urner wrote:
Anybody see the Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets an intern?
Art
Relation to Python? Well, it's probably thanks to my being a programmer for well over 10 years now, that I've had so little time for television (true rumor: he loved Sesame Street).r
Well then you may be proud to know that you are conversing with someone whose brother-in-law was the hind-half of Snuffleupagus for a number of years in its early days. I would go to the set to watch the proceedings occasionally. OK. *Now* I am OT. More On T. An open question to me in making a commitment toward learning PyGTK was its status with OpenGL and PyOpenGL. Turns out the situation looks quite good - in that the developer of gtkglext which is the most active, I think, gtk Opengl extension is also himself the developer of its Python binding PyGtkGLExt. I have it installed and working and it looks quite nice. http://gtkglext.sourceforge.net/ Art

An open question to me in making a commitment toward learning PyGTK was its status with OpenGL and PyOpenGL. Turns out the situation looks quite good - in that the developer of gtkglext which is the most active, I think, gtk Opengl extension is also himself the developer of its Python binding PyGtkGLExt. I have it installed and working and it looks quite nice.
http://gtkglext.sourceforge.net/
Art
I just took a look at the PyGTK 2.0 Tutorial http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html Very encouraging to see that much documentation spelled out in a usable format. However, I'm still curious: do you see PyGTK as a better way to spend your time than with wxPython? Wx has OpenGL bindings as well, has for quite some time. Also, wxPython has that very useful front end: when you download it, you get a huge pile of working code in the form of demos, all wrapped up in a well-organized wx GUI interface. I find that extremely cool. However, since VPython is its own thing, I've never been able to wrap my head around a way to treat VPython from within wx the same way I might treat OpenGL (not that I've done the latter either -- but the demo is persuasive). If wx had some way to establish a VPython window within its own unified event loop, that might lead to a next generation of Pygeo, no? Kirby
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