Programming language for children

[Knapp]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Kent Borg<kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
> I wrote :
>> Panda3d! I didn't know about that. I am going to look at that myself.
>> It looks really cool.
>
> But in a quick look it seems not to be for children. In fact the manual
> has a header that says: "Panda3D is not a Beginner's Tool [n]or a Toy".
> Not that a teenager couldn't make some cool stuff with Panda3d, but s/he
> will need to get beyond "beginner" first.
>
> -kb, the Kent who is disappointed that the Panda3d examples don't run on
> his Jaunty installation, damn Intel Xorg bugs! ("get fences failed: -1")

It is not for Children, it was made for Disney to make rides and
MMORPG games online. It is super powerful!!!

This rather short program gives you a panda bear walking around a
grove in a square with trees and rocks and a camera spinning around
360 filming it all. Look farther and you will see the same program
with the same library in C. Which can you read better?

python
http://www.panda3d.org/wiki/index.php/Using_Intervals_to_move_the_Panda

Cxx
http://www.panda3d.org/wiki/index.php/Using_Intervals_to_move_the_Panda_(CXX)

The thing to note here is that both are using little code and mostly
library calls.

Another thing about panda3d is that it has a really good manual. You
might look at pygame also.
-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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