[Edu-sig] Python Reloaded?

[Guido van Rossum]

I'd like to learn more about GASP (and whether it works on OSX) but I
am having a hard time finding a recent download link to the sources.
Is there someone here who has recently worked with it and remembers
where they got it? I've found http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gasp/0.4.5
-- is that the latest?

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Vern Ceder <vceder at canterburyschool.org> wrote:
> It depends on how motivated the kids are and how much time you've got,
>  but I would tend to agree with the teacher - in my experience that
>  amount of setup is likely to lose a fair number of them. One option
>  might be GASP, which puts a LiveWires wrapper around pygame.
>
>
>  Vern
>
>  Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>
> > 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
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  On Feb 26, 2008, at 9:09 PM, Brian Blais wrote:
>  >>
>  >>  > 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.
>  >>  >> :-)
>  >>  >
>  >>  >
>  >>  > What did they cover in that class?  I'd be curious to know what 8th
>  >>  > graders consider "cool", after 1 class of programming.
>  >>  >
>  >>  >
>  >>  >                       bb
>  >>  >
>  >>  > --
>  >>  > Brian Blais
>  >>  > bblais at bryant.edu
>  >>  > http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais
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