Re: [Tutor] newbie graphing question
Title: Re: [Tutor] newbie graphing question Thanks so much to everyone who helped me with my gui/drawing request. I appreciate the responses from Alan, bhaluu, James, and Pierre, and am exploring all the suggestions I received. At the moment, I have my immediate needs satisfied with Tkinter -- easiest because it was already present on my Mac, Windows, and Ubuntu installations. Alongside the recommendations, I came across the the Python Imaging Library, which I thought might also be worth mentioning in this thread. It's documentation is the best click with my brain; but I haven't tried it yet because installation on Mac Linux means I need to work from source; which I haven't been brave enough to try, yet. I am going to try my project with all the libraries suggested, and if results vary -- I'll post the results. Thanks again! Peter++ -- === Peter Petto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bay Village, OH tel: 440.249.4289 ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] newbie graphing question
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! -- === Peter Petto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bay Village, OH tel: 440.249.4289 ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] newbie graphing question
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Peter Petto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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! -- === Peter Petto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bay Village, OH tel: 440.249.4289 Hello Mr. Petto, I'd recommend the PyGame library. PyGame is a Python wrapper around the extraordinary SDL library. For an example program of what you might be looking for, take a look at: http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~aharris/pygame/ch05/paint.py The whole site has a lot of Python/PyGame examples: http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~aharris/pygame/ Andy Harris is a CS professor at Indiana University-Perdue University Indianapolis, and is the author of several books, including Game Programming [ISBN-13: 978-0-470-06822-9], which is a fairly complete introduction and tutorial for PyGame. Happy Programming! -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m Kid on Bus: What are you gonna do today, Napoleon? Napoleon Dynamite: Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh! ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] newbie graphing question
Peter Petto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 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)? Most GUI toolkits will have a Canvas widget or similar that allows drawing at that level. Also the standard turtle module might be helpful with supoport for turtle graphics. Finally there are Python plotting libraries that can be used for graphing and charts However the GUI toolkits have the big disadvantage that you have to build a GUII and all the controls before you can use the Canvas. That migt not be what you want. Or you may want to build a basic framework that your students can start from. 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. Standard Tkinter or wxPython both work on the Mac. It depends on whether you want to teach graphics programming or just graphics for data presentation. If the latter you are probably better off with a standard spreadsheet like Excel. HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] newbie graphing question
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Peter Petto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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! Take a look at PiScript: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/piscript/docs/piscript.html ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] newbie graphing question
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 ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
