[Edu-sig] Python Reloaded?

[Vern Ceder]

Have you tried https://launchpad.net/gasp ? That's the latest state of 
play, even though the version numbers might suggest otherwise...

Vern

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 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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>>  >>  Winston Wolff
>>  >>  Stratolab - Kids exploring computers, comics, and robots
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>>  --
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>>
>> This time for sure!
>>     -Bullwinkle J. Moose
>>  -----------------------------
>>  Vern Ceder, Director of Technology
>>  Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804
>>  vceder at canterburyschool.org; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137
>>
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-- 
This time for sure!
    -Bullwinkle J. Moose
-----------------------------
Vern Ceder, Director of Technology
Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804
vceder at canterburyschool.org; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137