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I think the element of visual feedback is huge in picking up programming. It's a shame there's no "processing but with python instead of java" type environment.
by reader5000 14y ago
I think the element of visual feedback is huge in picking up programming. It's a shame there's no "processing but with python instead of java" type environment.
- andrewflnr 14y agoBetter yet, Lua, which has fewer syntactic oddities. One of my big misgivings about Python is significant white space, which I suspect is weird for people used to word processors, not plain text.
- leke 14y ago...and if the author is looking for some visual feedback from their experience, there is Löve, a 2D game engine for Lua. It's very easy to code.
- bdon 14y agoCheck out NodeBox: http://nodebox.net http://nodebox.net
- mhansen 14y agopygame works well for this.
- vgnet 14y agoThere is pyprocessing, probably others: http://code.google.com/p/pyprocessing/ http://code.google.com/p/pyprocessing/
- juraseg 14y agoCheck out Turtle: http://docs.python.org/library/turtle.html http://docs.python.org/library/turtle.html
- coroxout 14y agoI think it's a shame Codecademy (to the best of my knowledge) hasn't incorporated some more visual lessons into its tutorials by changing the CSS for HTML elements or by using Canvas. There are a lot of lessons with numerical loops which might be livened up for beginners if the loops moved some coloured circles around a canvas, say. Personally, as a teenager I read some C books but never wrote more than the 10-line examples in the books until I discovered the Allegro graphics/game library and realised that I had all the tools I needed to make a Tetris clone, a 2d platform game, a software synthesiser... (none of which I ever finished, but oh well!) edit: I meant the Codecademy Javascript classes; obviously they have static CSS and HTML classes too, but last time I looked there were no tutorials to use JS to animate a web page. Maybe there are now or will be soon.