[Edu-sig] programming for artists

[Arthur_Siegel@rsmi.com]

BEN WRITES -

>oh, one problem - it won't even be a full semester course, but just 5 weeks -

the 
>foundation class also spends 5 weeks on sound and 5 on electronics.  not my 
>hoice, just the way the curriculum is structured.  so what i'd want to be able

>to do is get students going with python, understand some basic programming 
>concepts like variables, math, strings, functions, and hopefully events, and 
be 
>able to make something simple but visually pleasing.  does that sound
possible?

Here in Pythonland all is possible.

Seems to me Python with Numeric and VPython 

(see http://virtualphoton.pc.cc.cmu.edu/projects/visual/)  

is the best toolset you are apt to find to accomplish 
your mission.  

Have you looked at VPython and its demos yet? 

ART