Re: [pygame] very easy snippets to start: where from i can get?

["Paulo Silva" <nitrofurano@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jason and Brad! :-)

The reference of the book is interesting (indeed made a del.icio.us
bookmark of it! :-) )

My problem were not exactly about the Python itself, since i got
really encouraged on started it after seeing some snippets looking
like what i were done on wxBasic and sdlBasic (my Python stuff are at
http://nitrofurano.linuxkafe.com/python)

The problem is i can't code on Pygame as 'fine' as i were coding on
sdlBasic and Python (without Pygame) -
http://nitrofurano.linuxkafe.com/sdlbasic ,
http://nitrofurano.linuxkafe.com/python

My main ansi-basic coding experiences before sdlbasic/wxbasic were
with Amos (AmigaOS), and those 8bit interpreters like zxspectrum-basic
and msx-basic (good times...) - even HotSoupProcessor i enjoyed
experimenting :-)

On Qbasic i did some picture converters i tried to make a picture
filter as PythonFu (Gimp), but i got stuck with arrays holding colours
as hex values (those things i use in ansi-basic all the time...) -
coding on PythonFu i couldn't get better than this yet:
http://www.gimpstuff.org/content/show.php/show.php?content=84853&vote=good&tan=86344120
- if you all can code picture filters (pixel per pixel just like this)
better than me, and are also curious about Gimp, be welcome on sharing
your code where we all can learn from and providing more interesting
and different stuff as well!

thanks all the help provided! :-)

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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Brad Montgomery
<brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Also, on the pygame.org home page, there is a link to
>> a pygame book for sale.
>
> I've read McGugan's Beginning PyGame book, and it does a fairly nice
> job introducing Python in general (I think the first 2 chapters do
> this).  If you're wanting to learn Pygame it's a Great book.  If
> you're just learning python, it will be useful, but definitely not
> your only resource.
>
>> P.S. Do not try to use pygame without having learned
>> to program using Python alone first.
>
> I actually learned python because of pygame, and I DID use pygame with
> no prior python experience (though I had a LOT of programming
> experience in languages like C, Java, PHP... etc), so it CAN be done.
> Having said that, I heartily suggest you do some other stuff with
> python and then come back to pygame.  IMHO, it will make your pygame
> experience more enjoyable.  I think the python tutorial is a really
> good place to start:  http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html
>