[Tutor] Any 'graphical' ways of learning Python

2018-12-06 Thread Mike Barnett
I stumbled onto this mailing list when Google found a mention of PySimpleGUI in a thread titled: Any 'graphical' ways of learning Python. I wanted to respond with information on PySimpleGUI and why it's ideal for students. If you're teaching kids and they want to learn how to do GUIs so that th

Re: [Tutor] Any 'graphical' ways of learning Python

2018-12-06 Thread Mike Barnett
Oh, one more thing on this topic... there are tutorial videos available for PySimpleGUI, both basic and advanced. Basic 5 video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl8dD0doyrvHMoJGTdMtgLuHymaqJVjzt Additional 9 in-depth videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl8dD0doyrvHMoJGTd

Re: [Tutor] graphics library for teaching Python

2018-12-21 Thread Mike Barnett
>There are two sub-topics I'm interested in - (1) graphics, as in drawing >interesting pictures or art, or using diagrams for data visualization. (2) >Simple games, with the use of sprites. Can you post some images of similar programs / graphics you are wanting to create? It would be extremely

Re: [Tutor] graphics library for teaching Python

2018-12-21 Thread Mike Barnett
for the background of a canvas, but of the entire window. For that you’ll need to use PySimpleGUIQt. Anyway, it’s worth a look to see if it fits some of your needs. @mike<mailto:mike_barn...@hotmail.com> From: Michael Mossey Sent: Friday, December 21, 2018 1:40 PM To: Mike Barnett Cc:

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students

2019-01-22 Thread Mike Barnett
I like the idea of starting out right away on a GUI. I know this is completely backwards to what would normally be taught, but hear me out. Kids today are used to GUI interfaces. They're on their phones, their computers, their TV sets. Why not teach kids to output to a window instead of a

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students

2019-02-04 Thread Mike Barnett
arn...@hotmail.com> From: Matthew Polack Sent: Monday, February 4, 2019 12:15 AM To: Sean Murphy Cc: Mike Barnett ; tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students Hi All, Firstly thanks so much for all the suggestions a while back re: recom

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students

2019-02-21 Thread Mike Barnett
even needing Python installed on their computer. It’s Remi<https://github.com/dddomodossola/remi>, by the way, that is the magic behind PySimpleGUIWeb. @mike<mailto:mike_barn...@hotmail.com> From: Matthew Polack Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 10:35 PM To: David ; Mike Bar

Re: [Tutor] What does 'Bind Return Key' do?

2019-04-29 Thread Mike Barnett
You'll find it discussed in a couple of places in the PySimpleGUI documentation. For example, this was written about it under the Button Element section of the docs: -- The ENTER key : The ENTER key is an important part of data entry for windows. There'

Re: [Tutor] Interactive editing of variables.

2019-06-01 Thread Mike Barnett
impleGUI / tkinter: https://repl.it/@PySimpleGUI/Reddit-Change-variables-GUI My estimate wasn't too far off 18 lines of code in total. Is this the kind of modification of variables you where talking about? @mike -Original Message- From: Sean Murphy Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2019

Re: [Tutor] Interactive editing of variables.

2019-06-01 Thread Mike Barnett
TL;DR There's a run-time debugger out, "imwatchingyou" that is being developed daily, fast paced, that enables debugging without stopped your code or using an IDE. I'm unsure if I'm super late to the party of if I understand the "problem" / request properly. I apologize if I'm off-base. Do yo

Re: [Tutor] Multiprocessing with many input input parameters

2019-07-11 Thread Mike Barnett
If you're passing parameters as a list, then you need a "," at the end of the items. Otherwise if you have something like a string as the only item, the list will be the string. list_with_one_item = ['item one',] @mike -Original Message- From: Shall, Sydney Sent: Wednesday, July 10

Re: [Tutor] Multiprocessing with many input input parameters

2019-07-13 Thread Mike Barnett
Right, I meant tuple, not list. a = ('A string') b = ('A List Member',) print(a[0]) print(b[0]) The output for this is: A A List Member @mike -Original Message- From: Cameron Simpson Sent: Friday, July 12, 2019 7:59 PM To: Mike Barnett Cc: Shall, Sydne