[Edu-sig] Teaching GUI's in Python?

[Andrew Harrington]

Is anyone trying to modernize the code to work with more modern versions of
the supporting packages?  Sad to still see Arthur's email address still on
the home page so many years after his death.

Andy

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Kirby Urner <kurner at oreillyschool.com>wrote:

> > Exhibit, old project:  http://pygeo.sourceforge.net/
> >
>
> Arthur Siegel was the creator of this and he and I used to take a lot
> of the bandwidth here on edu-sig hashing it out about various topics.
> I still go back to that stuff.  We have a great archive, lots of
> spirited discussion.
>
> Having read other responses, I agree JavaScript deserves front and
> center treatment, however I'd make a distinction between the server
> and client and talk realistically of Python on the server.
>
> You can talk about Model View Controller in a kind of "cave painting"
> setting, where you don't squander hours on any one framework.
>
> In my geometry classes, I bury the specs for polyhedrons in a
> relational database (sqlite3 is good) and pull them up in VPython.
>
> Turtle Art is fantastic and we've had many brilliant postings on that
> thread.  At OST, I've been pioneering "Tractor Art", far more
> primitive (ASCII-based "graphics") -- you'll see some evidence of that
> work in those screen shots (my last post).
>
> Kirby
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