RE: Homework help requested, thanks to everyone.

2013-07-21 Thread Joseph Clark
John, have you taken a look at pyglet? It's an alternative to pygame and I found it pretty slick once I got the hang of it. There is a development version that's compatible with python 3 and I've never had a bug with it. It wraps OpenGL itself so there are no additional dependencies. // jo

RE: Homework help requested (not what you think!)

2013-07-18 Thread Joseph Clark
Not to open Pandora's box or anything, but are you aware of the Roguelike community (subculture?) (cult?) of game development? Rogue was an old "text-based" role playing game for Unix, "text-based" in the sense that it used the console as a 2D map and ASCII characters as graphics. There has be

RE: Top 10 python features

2013-03-17 Thread Joseph Clark
I'm a Python newbie and already found a few things that I love about the language. Among them: - list/set comprehensions - dictionaries and sets - pickle/shelve // joseph w. clark , phd , visiting research associate \\ university of nebraska at omaha - college of IS&T ---