Thanks everyone. To summarise...
- A teaching resources page, which has and links to resources that teachers
can use.
- Link to:
- Paul's proven python pygame resource.
- raspberrypi
- microbit
- community.computingatschool.org.uk/resources/4952
- other human language/region specific resources
- different use categories (eg, for teaching music, drawing, ...)
- updated newbie guide
- reduced set of important fundamental concepts. Based on Ian's minimal
examples.
- order docs top navigation into important concepts first.
- Surface, Rect, ...
- monitor python for education for when if it is completed. Get in contact.
- improve sprite classes for areas people have found difficult.
- built in rotation and scaling, automatic transparency handling for
image loading.
- primitives that handle drawing.
- not sure how to handle coordinate reversal.
- the better sprite classes given more prominence (LayeredDirty works lots
faster)
- tag for educational projects
- page showing off projects for different pygame uses
- "What can pygame be used for?"
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 2:26 PM, René Dudfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good point.
>
> Ian Mallet has already made a whole bunch of little improvements to the
> docs. https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/pull-requests/76
>
> I'll leave this other suggestion for the docs here...
> - Divide the docs top navigation up into two parts. 'core' important
> basics, and 'extras'. So things like mask, Overlay, cdrom, BufferProxy, and
> other non essential things are in 'extras'.
>
>
> cheers,
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 6:57 AM, Daniel Foerster <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> In particular, "A Newbie Guide to pygame" is woefully outdated. Honestly,
>> it was outdated enough back when I was reading it for the first time in
>> 2011 that I made a version with a bunch of comments correcting its advice.
>> I don't use Pygame much these days, but it'd be great if someone who is
>> would make a replacement.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 5:46 AM, Ian Mallett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 4:20 AM, René Dudfield <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Whilst there are now more than a dozen books, and video series in many
>>>> languages for teaching pygame, I'd like to include a new section on the
>>>> website for educational resources for teachers. Or even better, to be able
>>>> to point to an existing resource. Not particularly for 'pygame', but for
>>>> digital education in general, or at least python related. I wonder if you
>>>> have any thoughts on this?
>>>>
>>> This sounds awfully non-orthogonal to various current movements to
>>> bring CS education to the masses (which typically means coding instead,
>>> alas, but yet). Honestly, I'm not sure how valuable a new resource here
>>> would be--surely, there are educational sites for teaching, and same but
>>> specific for Python?
>>>
>>> What makes sense to me would be a section specifically on using pygame.
>>> We already have something of this sort (I know; I've been
>>> looking-at/sprucing-up the current tutorials), but these are largely dated,
>>> and don't span the whole of what pygame has to offer. They're also
>>> text-dense, which is apparently not a popular way to learn things anymore.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Anything else I should link to?
>>>>
>>> What would have been most helpful for me when I learned pygame would
>>> have been some solid foundation to build on. I offer my pygame hello
>>> world
>>> <https://geometrian.com/programming/tutorials/PyGame%20Program%20Shell.py.txt>
>>> and pygame-GL-2 hello world
>>> <https://geometrian.com/programming/tutorials/OpenGL%20Program%20Shell.py.txt>
>>> as minimal, best-practices, public-domain resources (links have been stable
>>> for years, but mirroring would be ideal).
>>>
>>> Ian
>>>
>>
>>
>
