[Edu-sig] Scratch interface for Python, and network programming games.

[Winston Wolff]

Hi Dethe-

I have been thinking of exactly the same thing--a Scratch type  
environment for Python.  And I've also purchased a Nintendo DS  
development kit, hoping to make a Python to Nintendo DS development  
system.  Haven't had time to work on it though with my summer  
classes.  I should have more time in the fall, perhaps we can  
collaborate?

My biggest interest on the Scratch/Python angle right now is to  
develop some team programming games.  I.e. you write a program using  
Python raw or Python via a Scratch interface for beginners, and then  
you throw your program into the ring via the network and have it  
compete against other students.



Winston Wolff
winstonw at stratolab.com
(646) 827-2242

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On Aug 22, 2007, at 5:44 AM, Dethe Elza wrote:

> Not a school, but some data points for you in this world where
> ultra-mobile computers (cell phones, PDAs, etc) may be out-pacing the
> growth of desktops and faux-desktop laptops:
>
> Nokia N800 web appliance (my travel computer, together with a fold-up
> bluetooth keyboard it weighs about a pound, a third of that without
> the keyboard): 800 x 480 resolution.  Runs PyGame nicely, has Python
> 2.5 as an optional install, Linux-based.
>
> The OLPC XO is 1200 x 900 (and more amazingly, 200 DPI) and also runs
> PyGame, so my N800 serves as a development platform for the XO until I
> can get my hands on the real thing.
>
> Right now I'm working on a Scratch-like environment for kids built on
> top of PyGame.  My son just got an extremely powerful computer for his
> 7th birthday: a Nintendo DS (two screens, one touch-sensitive).  Every
> game he plays, he sits down to sketch out how he would write it in
> Scratch, complete with wireframes, event handling, etc.  Scratch has
> been an amazing force in our house.  Right now he and his sister (who
> also has a DS) are playing games against each other wirelessly,
> without any support infrastructure (The DS creates its own wireless
> network).  This is their world, they expect everything to be able to
> be programmable, connectable, hackable (they read my copies of Make
> magazine before I do and plan out their hardware projects: we'll be
> building an MP3 player when we get back from vacation).
>
> Hope all of you are well.  Greetings from Sofia, Bulgaria.
>
> --Dethe
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