I've been reading about composition vs inheritance, and went back to
"Learning Python" to look at something I found very confusing a year
ago. Turns out I still find it very confusing :)
Try this example ecology simulation by Kirby Urner:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2000-April/000306.html
It does have a bug or two in it, but I was able to find and fix them by
myself. But the bugs are discussed here if you get stuck:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2003-March/002742.html
and here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2003-March/002744.html
Still, simple as it is, it gave me a much more profound grasp of Python
based OOP than any of Learning Python's examples. I suspect the following
book might be superb for leaning OOP:
Game Programming With Python (Game Development Series) (Paperback) by Sean
Riley
In short, study actual simulations (of which games are a major subset)!
RC
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