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
