[Edu-sig] Python Reloaded?

[Guido van Rossum]

How old are your students? We are considering pygame, but the teacher
is taken aback by the large amount of setup code needed. Also, running
programs using pygame from IDLE on a Mac seems flaky.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Winston Wolff <winstonw at stratolab.com> wrote:
> My students love anything to do with graphics.  Even making a white
>  rectangle on the screen and then redrawing it in red is cool.  Also
>  they love transparency--with PyGame, you can set the alpha and they
>  love that.
>
>  -Winston
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>  On Feb 26, 2008, at 9:09 PM, Brian Blais wrote:
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>  > On Feb 26, 2008, at Feb 26:8:22 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>  >
>  >> PS. Just watched two groups of 8th grade middle school girls go
>  >> through their first Python class. Cool! (That's what they said too.
>  >> :-)
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>  >
>  > What did they cover in that class?  I'd be curious to know what 8th
>  > graders consider "cool", after 1 class of programming.
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