[pygame] new tutorials

[Pete Shinners <shredwheat@mediaone.net>]

As we approach the release of pygame-1.3, i've put together a batch of 
new examples and tutorials. they are currently all online (although 
it'll probably be tricky to try the new examples unless you grab it all 
from cvs)

please feel free to read these before the real release. i haven't spent 
much time proofreading all of these, but i plan to soon. send those 
typos and comments in. you can mail me direct for the simple stuff, 
pete@shinners.org, but feel free to discuss any of it here on the list.


Help! How Do I Move An Image?
http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/MoveIt.html
This is a new tutorial for the ultra-newbie. There have been many new 
people coming to pygame that just haven't figured out a good way to 
cleanly animate several objects. This goes through from the very 
beginning and handholds up to creating a game object class and moving 
many instances of them around the screen. The final form of this 
tutorial is also one of the new pygame example, named "moveit.py". Very 
simple, but also very non-confusing.

Chimp Line By Line
http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/ChimpLineByLine.html
The chimp example has been completely rewritten. It now uses the new 
sprite module, and includes lots of error checking, good reusable code. 
The tutorial has also been updated for the new code. There's also some 
fun new features for the chimp example. I really wanted to "clean up" 
the simple code it used before, since i was beginning to see it in so 
many places :]

Sprite Module Introduction
http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/SpriteInto.html
This is a 'bigger than i thought it would be' introduction to the new 
sprite module. It requires a little python experience (and probably some 
pygame experience too). It covers everything from what it all is, to how 
you should use it. Sprite module is good good.


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