[Tutor] newbie graphing question

[Pierre Dagenais]

Peter Petto wrote:
> I'm about to try some Python programming for drawing simple geometric 
> pictures (for math classes I teach) and was hoping to get some advice 
> that will send me off in the best direction.
> 
> I want to write programs that can draw figures with commands akin to 
> point(x,y) to draw a point at coordinates (x,y), or segment (x1,y1,x2, 
> y2) to draw a segment between points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2)?
> 
> I'd appreciate recommendations as to the best facility or library to use 
> to this end. I primarily use a Mac, but my students primarily use Windows.
> 
> I'd love to hear any and all pointers or comments. Thanks!
> 
> 
Hi Peter,
I'm just trying to do the same, draw points and lines without having to 
spend the next six months learning a GUI environment and then finding 
I've been learning the wrong one all this time. Then I stumbled on these 
pages at py4fun, it's a quick and dirty introduction to the basics of 
Tkinter, just a few commands and you're in business. Hope that is what 
you're looking for,
> http://ibiblio.org/obp/py4fun/gui/tkPhone.html
> http://ibiblio.org/obp/py4fun/wave/wave.html