Author Archives: Horst JENS

About Horst JENS

teaching open source game programming to kids

money with gamejams

Posted on 2013-05-02

(not python related) I have seen this guy participating in a game jam in Vienna’s Metalab. He is good. His Forum posting is very interesting: He will auction off his next -not yet written- game jam entry (on GiGJam). If … Continue reading →

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free python books A very nice website about free python books: pythonbooks.revolunet.com Some  books are only free to look at / to download, but some books are properly creative commons licensed. ThePythonGameBook.com itself is not (yet) listed there, but i like the … Continue reading →

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nice quora python thread

Posted on 2013-04-11

Quora.com, the question and answer platform with the same technology that powers stackoverflow.com, has a nice thread about python: What-are-the-Python-features-you-wish-youd-known-earlier I use python since many years and i still learn new tricks every day. I highly recommend this thread to … Continue reading →

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python online tutor

Posted on 2013-03-05

see python code executed step by step in your web browser… this is awesome: http://www.pythontutor.com/

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Ninja IDE

Posted on 2013-02-11

Since yesterday i play around with a new python editor (IDE): Ninja IDE: http://ninja-ide.org/ So far this gpl3-licensed, Qt-powered, free IDE specifically written for python has made a very good impresson on me: There is code completion and tooltips There … Continue reading →

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Think Python

Posted on 2013-01-22

Good news, everyone: there is a nice, creative-commons licensed ( cc-by-nc ) book about python, even with a python3 version: Think Python: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/. From the author of “How to think like a computer scientist”, Allen B. Downey. He initially wrote … Continue reading →

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free python3 book

Posted on 2013-01-03

Another free python3 tutorial book is online: http://beastie.cs.ua.edu/cs150/book/index.html

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2012 in review

Posted on 2012-12-31

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,400 views in 2012. If every person who reached the … Continue reading →

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installing pygame on python3.x

Posted on 2012-11-27

nice useful blogposting (using Linux): http://pythonfun.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/installing-pygame-with-python-3-2-on-ubuntu-11-04/

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pycrawl on hold

Posted on 2012-09-07

The pycrawl project (part of ThePythonGameBook project) is on hold for now, as i will not find much time for it for the rest of this month. Things may hopefully change next month. The reason i have no time is … Continue reading →

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