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The first time I encountered Python was in 1999 when there was a desktop 3D engine scriptable in Python. The engine was presented in a local deadwood magazine.

The first time I encountered Python was in 1999 when there was a desktop 3D engine scriptable in Python. The engine was presented in a local deadwood magazine. The engine was called Alice. Looks like Alice is still around http://www.alice.org/ http://www.alice.org/ Last update from September.

miohtama 3y ago
Also looks like they have ditched Python for Java https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnerErrorsWithPythonProgramming https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnerErrorsWithPythonProgram... Everyone has riding Java hypetrain in 00s. Long term and as a hindsight, might not have been the best choice.
sidewndr46 3y ago
interesting, that predates the commercial Dune game that was Python & Renderware. I did a bit of investigation into this a few years back http://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/reverse-engineering-frank-herberts-dune.html http://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/reverse-engineering-frank-her...
- miohtama 3y ago
  Some other notable games based on Python - Civilization (one of them) - Eve Online (Stackless Python)
  - sidewndr46 3y ago
    any idea what Civ game is based on Python?
    - nurettin 3y ago
      Civ4 was scripted using python https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Civ/Civilization_IV/Modding/Tutorials/Python_Tutorial https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Civ/Civilization_IV/Modding/Tu... I faintly remember seeing boost.python dlls in the install directory 15 something years ago.
      - Elucalidavah 3y ago
        > Civ4 was scripted using python Same for sims4
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mfragin 3y ago
I have attended two conferences for educators using Alice in their Computer Science curriculum (back in the mid 2000s, I think). The Alice Team at Carnegie Mellon were great in their efforts to make something for educators teaching CS at the high school entry level. In fact, one of the workshops was shortly after Randy Pausch passed away. I remember it being a pretty somber time on campus at CMU. Don Slater and Wanda Dann (two of the original Alice team members) were extremely approachable and helped me build a darn good high school CS curriculum that offered many classes for kids in a pretty low socioeconomic school on Colorado's front range. Don even was an old-school tabletop sports gamer who played a lot of Paydirt (an Avalon Hill title) back in the day. I was a bit of throwback and taught kids text editors, SVN (they just wanted to use "Dropbox" to collaborate), and Linux (my classroom was a Linux LAN and it was pretty fun to teach kids how to administer it with me)--I appreciated Alice as a great way to get kids working on day 1 on programming concepts. Using recursive methods to make a shark attack a person swimming in the ocean was one of the lessons I used to teach. In fact, if you want to pretend you're a freshman in Intro to Computing, my lesson (for the level 4 challenge: the advanced level) is still in Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/98328965 https://vimeo.com/98328965 Be kind :-) I was stretched so thin. I basically created the entire HS CS curriculum (except for APCS), and I would create these screencasts just in time, adjusting them as necessary for my students that year.

miohtama 3y ago

Also looks like they have ditched Python for Java https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnerErrorsWithPythonProgramming https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnerErrorsWithPythonProgram... Everyone has riding Java hypetrain in 00s. Long term and as a hindsight, might not have been the best choice.

sidewndr46 3y ago

interesting, that predates the commercial Dune game that was Python & Renderware. I did a bit of investigation into this a few years back http://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/reverse-engineering-frank-herberts-dune.html http://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/reverse-engineering-frank-her...

miohtama 3y ago
Some other notable games based on Python - Civilization (one of them) - Eve Online (Stackless Python)
- sidewndr46 3y ago
  any idea what Civ game is based on Python?
  - nurettin 3y ago
    Civ4 was scripted using python https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Civ/Civilization_IV/Modding/Tutorials/Python_Tutorial https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Civ/Civilization_IV/Modding/Tu... I faintly remember seeing boost.python dlls in the install directory 15 something years ago.
    - Elucalidavah 3y ago
      > Civ4 was scripted using python Same for sims4

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mfragin 3y ago

I have attended two conferences for educators using Alice in their Computer Science curriculum (back in the mid 2000s, I think). The Alice Team at Carnegie Mellon were great in their efforts to make something for educators teaching CS at the high school entry level. In fact, one of the workshops was shortly after Randy Pausch passed away. I remember it being a pretty somber time on campus at CMU. Don Slater and Wanda Dann (two of the original Alice team members) were extremely approachable and helped me build a darn good high school CS curriculum that offered many classes for kids in a pretty low socioeconomic school on Colorado's front range. Don even was an old-school tabletop sports gamer who played a lot of Paydirt (an Avalon Hill title) back in the day. I was a bit of throwback and taught kids text editors, SVN (they just wanted to use "Dropbox" to collaborate), and Linux (my classroom was a Linux LAN and it was pretty fun to teach kids how to administer it with me)--I appreciated Alice as a great way to get kids working on day 1 on programming concepts. Using recursive methods to make a shark attack a person swimming in the ocean was one of the lessons I used to teach. In fact, if you want to pretend you're a freshman in Intro to Computing, my lesson (for the level 4 challenge: the advanced level) is still in Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/98328965 https://vimeo.com/98328965 Be kind :-) I was stretched so thin. I basically created the entire HS CS curriculum (except for APCS), and I would create these screencasts just in time, adjusting them as necessary for my students that year.