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Mister Newbie

I have no programming experience. I want to learn Python so I can make
simple, 2D games. Where should I start? Can you recommend a good book?

Thank you.

Feb 2 '07

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Eric_Dexter

On Feb 3, 2:16 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_...@gmx.net wrote:

In <1170485721.683 685.178...@v33g 2000cwv.googleg roups.com>,

Eric_Dex...@msn .com wrote:
pygame is probily a good program to start with as long as you keep in
mind that it is possible that up to 50% of the p.c. laptops may not be
able to run it.

Huh? Care to explain this?

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

This is based on the documentation from panda3d explaining why certain
functions do not work on pc lap tops. The trend in tek is smaller
faster exc exc.. based on what they said at the time of thier
documation and I would have to check this certain functions are not
available because of memory of the graphics card??? I am going by
memory and as promised those panda 3d functions do not work but the
program overall is fine. There is no explanation in directpy but the
mentioned using several methods and the method they use in the demo
showing the island does not work but overall it works fine. For
pygame the best I could get on my laptop was the outline of a window I
was never able to get any graphics. There is some assumption based on
what I read in the panda3d stuff that leads me to believe it is
because of a lesser graphics. I could be wrong.. I looked into
wxwindows a little further and have noticed more graphics stuff but
documentation and tutorials for that sort of thing isn't readily
available so hopefully there is a fix of pygame or more docs on
wxwindows (or tkinter) that I can use at some time.

Feb 3 '07 #11

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

In <11************ *********@a75g2 000cwd.googlegr oups.com>,
Er*********@msn .com wrote:

On Feb 3, 2:16 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_...@gmx.net wrote:
>In <1170485721.683 685.178...@v33g 2000cwv.googleg roups.com>,

Eric_Dex...@ms n.com wrote:
pygame is probily a good program to start with as long as you keep in
mind that it is possible that up to 50% of the p.c. laptops may not be
able to run it.

Huh? Care to explain this?

This is based on the documentation from panda3d explaining why certain
functions do not work on pc lap tops.

Could you point to such documentation? The search function in the online
docs doesn't know about "laptop".

The trend in tek is smaller faster exc exc.. based on what they said at
the time of thier documation and I would have to check this certain
functions are not available because of memory of the graphics card??? I
am going by memory and as promised those panda 3d functions do not work
but the program overall is fine.

There must be enough memory to display a full screen, obviously,
everything else is done in main memory then. And you are talking about
panda3d functions and not pygame ones. The OP wanted to write simple 2D
games, so it's irrelevant if panda3d doesn't work on some laptops.
Claiming pygame doesn't work on about 50% of the laptops out there based
on these facts is a bit exaggerated.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

Feb 4 '07 #12

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