[Edu-sig] Python Physics Sandbox released

[Jay Shaffstall]

I'm very pleased to announce the general release of a Python physics
sandbox targeting students in intro programming courses.  We teach Python
as a first language here and a physics simulation has long been one of the
students' favorite labs.  But the simulation we were using, while easy to
use, was pretty limited and only worked in one particular IDE.

So I wrote PyPhysicsSandbox, a thin wrapper around pymunk.  The sandbox
allows students to construct more sophisticated combinations of shapes and
joints and interactivity with the user.  It should also work in any
environment that allows installing libraries to Python using pip.

The code lives here: https://github.com/jshaffstall/PyPhysicsSandbox

It's freely available for use in your own classes.

Jay
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