puzzle snakes
Although our ASISTM cluster has been using GameMaker, I have kept an eye out for other game programming options.
Over the January break, one of my students attended a summer school at NSW University. She was really motivated by the use of Python and with her team, built an Internet search engine. Python has had a splendid writeup and great future in our classrooms. To date I have found..
Over the January break, one of my students attended a summer school at NSW University. She was really motivated by the use of Python and with her team, built an Internet search engine. Python has had a splendid writeup and great future in our classrooms. To date I have found..
- A Python programming competition on the Internet.
- A physics-based puzzle game written in Python for PyWeek 2. Features over 15 levels, a "free-play" mode and an integrated level editor.
- A research paper that compares eleven programming languages which are currently used in introductory courses. The comparison suggests that Python is one of the most suitable languages to be considered for use in the classroom.
- A game programming exercise and challenge, this chap created a role playing game from scratch in 40 hours using python and a suite of free software.