pong game tutorial video with python

3dbuzz discusses the design and implementation of a pong game. The preview mentions the design includes some classes such as actor, vector, ball, and player. the pygame library is used. it costs $24.99 but the previews are free.

python resources video

Showmedo has a video on Python resources. It looked useful for those starting out. He mentions some videos, books, blogs and other web sites.

I would like to checkout Python pdf support some time to see how difficult it would be to work with text for printing.

Continuing with the web development topic, the video mentions they use TurboGears for the ShowMeDo site.

python web frameworks

Jonathan Ellis has a post of his opinion about some Python web frameworks.

Currently I use BlueHost for a very basic web site. They advertise support for Python and Ruby on Rails. I've heard of some videos for Ruby on Rails. I believe they are on the official site here, but I'm planning on continuing with the Python route instead for now since I'm working on getting more familiar with that language. His post mentions TurboGears or Django or Pylons as alternatives. However, so far I don't see any response to a forum post asking about Pylons support about a year ago, and it seems like some other forum posts describe how to manually install the other two frameworks (I haven't tried their scripts yet). Since this isn't urgent I plan on continuing to look for more information about this. Perhaps eventually Bluehost will have more support and that will make things easier.

wikipedia chinese cuisine article

Wikipedia has an article about Chinese cuisine. It has some information I hadn't heard before and seems like a start for learning more about it. I don't eat as much Chinese food as I used too but perhaps learning about it will be interesting.

learning python

There is a blog called learning python that look like it might be helpful. The author published some stuff in Python magazine and has some posts about programming games with Python.

pycon

There is a Python podcast on the python.org web site that I'll be checking out today. It has some excerpts from Pycon, an annual Python conference.

Also, Yahoo news has an interesting story about carbon nanontubes mimicing asbestos.

Arduino ide on 64 bit Ubuntu gutsy

Arduino ide on 64 bit Ubuntu gutsy

This site was helpful when trying to get the Arduino IDE working on 64 bit Ubuntu. It used to crash with a message about incompatible word size after showing a window to pick the sketch directory. I just recently upgraded my pc to the 64 bit AMD version to try it out and ran into this problem.

memristor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor

Some news recently announced about a new circuit element. Apparently it will be quite useful in the near future. NPR has more information that I'd like to check out later.

Programming video site

I'm checking out http://www.showmedo.com for Python video material.

Also, http://snippets.dzone.com has examples of usages for Python and other languages to read and learn from. The local interpreter helps with this kind of learning.

Jon Bentley has a blog that looks interesting, but I haven't had time to find something interesting in it. He mentions he works with IronPython now.