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Re: [pygame] Can I download all game source files easily?



I see you already know where to find Al's book, so I'll just chime in
to wish you luck!

Good luck from another young coder teacher :)

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Matt Roe <roebros@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would second checking out pyweek - you can go to a list of all entries in
> a given competition, and download from links there quite rapidly. Older
> Pyweek's some people made large torrents and zips for people to download to
> relieve pressure on the server, not sure if anyone does those anymore, been
> years.
>
> Good luck!
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:28 PM, bw <stabbingfinger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hey there. Unfortunately the projects on pygame.org are only
>> informational. They link to offsite hosting services for the game files. And
>> the project pages fall out of maintenance because the authors move on, and
>> as you've seen hosting services come and go.
>>
>> You could try Firefox web browser with the Slashgot or DownThemAll plugin.
>> These are very convenient for selectively grabbing files from the links on a
>> page. I'd spend a half hour grabbing, and then look through my download
>> directory to see what I got. But this is going to get you a lot of duds and
>> mystery zips, and things that aren't games or interesting toys. So the
>> treasure hunt you've been on is probably the most fruitful approach.
>>
>> Another interesting place to find working and often polished games is
>> pyweek.org. There are Python games using various libraries, though many of
>> the games there use pygame.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Gumm
>>
>>
>> On 2/17/2015 8:03 AM, shibbiddyd wrote:
>>>
>>> I am teaching a workshop to kids this week.  I would like to demonstrate
>>> and
>>> read a variety of source code from pygame projects.
>>>
>>> Is there an FTP, directory, or archive to easily download every pygame's
>>> source code?
>>>
>>> There are many games and links to follow (600+), and it is a tedious
>>> process.  I have trouble downloading from some of the sites.  Some
>>> websites
>>> are down or do not exist anymore.  Some are blocked at work (rapidshare,
>>> megaupload, and sourceforge).  Some are confusing.  I have downloaded
>>> many
>>> individually, but it is very time consuming and I am nowhere near
>>> complete.
>>>
>>> I used this link last year and the kids loved it:
>>> http://inventwithpython.com/inventwithpython.zip
>>> But it only shows a small sample set of what PyGame can do.
>>>
>>> Thank you for everything you do!  This is another incredible library for
>>> the
>>> amazing python programming language.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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