| === powerinside is now known as Power-Inside | ||
| bencrisford | that was the best nights sleep I have had in a long time :) | 09:43 |
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| bencrisford | morning all | 09:43 |
| mhall119 | morning | 14:09 |
| bencrisford | mhall119: afternoon :P | 14:28 |
| mhall119 | afternoon? I'm not even done with my first cup of coffee | 14:29 |
| stgraber | hello | 15:02 |
| bencrisford | mhall119: lol, dont mention coffee :( im trying to give up | 15:19 |
| bencrisford | stgraber: hi :) | 15:19 |
| * bencrisford is teaching his lil' cousin bash | 15:19 | |
| bencrisford | not sure hes taking it all in... | 15:19 |
| * etali wishes her niece would sit down in front of a computer long enough to even reach the "not taking it in" stage | 15:21 | |
| mhall119 | bencrisford: don't give up, quitters never win | 15:21 |
| bencrisford | anyway, its pouring with rain, and where I come from that normally means "lets go for a walk" :D | 15:21 |
| mhall119 | bencrisford: teach him python, it's easier | 15:21 |
| bencrisford | etali: haha | 15:21 |
| bencrisford | mhall119: truth is I just wanted to work on a script I started the other day, and he wont leave my side | 15:22 |
| mhall119 | lol | 15:23 |
| mhall119 | that's how my son got started with python, actually | 15:23 |
| bencrisford | lol, nice :) | 15:23 |
| mhall119 | bencrisford: how old? | 15:23 |
| etali | Maybe try Python if he shows an interest in doing something himself? The results can look more exciting, which is a motivator | 15:23 |
| bencrisford | mhall119: err, 10-ish? I dunno, he seems young for his age | 15:23 |
| bencrisford | etali: I used alot of zenity so it probably seemed exciting to him anyway | 15:24 |
| bencrisford | I will suggest python to him though | 15:24 |
| bencrisford | I think he could do well with it :) | 15:24 |
| mhall119 | bencrisford: my son is 6, he likes this game: http://img62.imageshack.us/i/quinnlaby.png/ | 15:24 |
| mhall119 | there's also Jono's new PyJunior | 15:25 |
| mhall119 | and several others, like Rurple and Guido Von Robot | 15:25 |
| bencrisford | I used to love games like that | 15:25 |
| bencrisford | anyway, im going walkies :D | 15:25 |
| bencrisford | back in a bit | 15:25 |
| etali | Enjoy the rain :) | 15:25 |
| mhall119 | I'm kicking around the idea of making a myst-like game, only you solve the problems by writing Python snippets | 15:26 |
| etali | mhall119: That sounds cool! There's too many fake programming / hacker games these days, one where you do some real code would probably interest a lot of geeks. | 15:27 |
| mhall119 | I'm thinking that instead of saving their progress, i'll save their code, and then run through the game progress until they hit a stage without code | 15:29 |
| mhall119 | I'd call it "reboot", but I think I'd be sued | 15:29 |
| etali | lol, how about POST, or Bootstrap? (With POST you could make it stand for something different - Programmers Only Save Terra, or whatever the world in the game is called :-p) | 15:31 |
| * etali wonders if ReBoot is still as cool as they remember it being. | 15:31 | |
| mhall119 | no | 15:32 |
| etali | no as in "reboot has aged really badly"? | 15:33 |
| mhall119 | yeah | 15:34 |
| mhall119 | CGI has come a long way since, what, 1994? | 15:34 |
| etali | Wow, I forgot it had been that long! I re-wo | 15:35 |
| etali | ^^ I re-watched Battle of the Planets (was that the 80s?) recently, really regretted spoiling my memories of that *cringe* | 15:35 |
| mhall119 | lol | 15:36 |
| mhall119 | yeah, I stay away from childhood favorites for exactly that reason | 15:36 |
| mhall119 | but I think a game with an actual plot, isntead of just loco-style sprite control, would be a cool way to learn python | 15:36 |
| mhall119 | like, the entire world is make from code, and you have to modify parts to get the environment to behave differently | 15:37 |
| mhall119 | in order to solve the game | 15:37 |
| mhall119 | and it'll teach you different constructs as at each level | 15:37 |
| mhall119 | I'll have to play with pygame to figure out how to do this though | 15:38 |
| mhall119 | and lack of any kind of scene graph will make is more difficult to animate | 15:38 |
| etali | It sounds like a pretty complex undertaking if you want to give the user the freedom to arrive at the right result any way they want to | 15:39 |
| etali | Really cool idea, but I'm getting a headache just thinking about vague ways of doing it :) | 15:40 |
| mhall119 | well I wouldn't make everything about the environment hackable | 15:42 |
| humbolto | how can I prevent certain partitions to show in nautilus/places? | 15:42 |
| humbolto | I find some howtos that involve hal, which recently has been removed from ubuntu, so that does not help anymore. | 15:42 |
| === Rondom_ is now known as Rondom | ||
| bencrisford | well that was a pleasant walk | 16:29 |
| bencrisford | (hmm, sarcasm doesnt always work over IRC) | 16:29 |
| * bencrisford really needs some caffeine | 16:30 | |
| bencrisford | Hmm, I can't seem to find a time-tabling software for linux | 17:16 |
| bencrisford | I might start working on one | 17:17 |
| bencrisford | education-wise it could help schools timetable lessons, and students timetable revision | 17:17 |
| humbolto | Evince does not work in Lucid LTSP. | 17:22 |
| humbolto | filed a bug already | 17:22 |
| humbolto | but can somebody confirm that? | 17:22 |
| bencrisford | isforinsects: it seems I have not accepted you in to the advocacy team yet :/, i'm sorry I thought i'd done that | 21:07 |
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