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This module is one in a collection of modules on Python designed for teaching ITSE 1359 Introduction to Scripting Languages: Python at Austin Community College in Austin, TX.
This material is provided for the benefit of those students who are interested in expanding their learning experience beyond the minimumrequirements of the course titled ITSE 1359 Introduction to Scripting Languages: Python . Knowledge of the material in this sub-collection titled Putting Python to Work is not a requirement of the course.
During my 20+ years of teaching computer programming, I have learned that many students are more likely to succeed in the course if I provide interestingand useful projects for them to work on in addition to simply computing sales-tax tables, etc. Therefore, I try to provide projects such as image processing, networkprogramming, event-driven programming, game programming, etc. in addition to the more boring text-only types of projects in most of the coursesthat I teach.
Several interesting libraries and Ebooks for doing this sort of programming with Python are freely available on the web including the following:
Many of the items in the above list could be used to develop interesting and useful programming projects for use in this course. There is a problem, however.Many of the items in the list were developed using Python version 2.x and have not yet been updated for compatibility with Python 3.x or later as of January2015. Therefore, some of the items in the above list are not compatible with the version of Python being used for this course.
As time goes on, I plan to monitor the state of these items and to update the contents of this sub-collection to explore the use of the items inthis portion of the course material. Therefore, you should consider this portion of the course material to be a work in process.
I will begin with Pygame , which is compatible with Python version 3.4.
This section contains a variety of miscellaneous information.
Financial : Although the Connexions site makes it possible for you to download a PDF file for thismodule at no charge, and also makes it possible for you to purchase a pre-printed version of the PDF file, you should beaware that some of the HTML elements in this module may not translate well into PDF.
I also want you to know that, I receive no financial compensation from the Connexions website even if you purchase the PDF version of the module.
In the past, unknown individuals have copied my modules from cnx.org, converted them to Kindle books, and placed them for sale on Amazon.com showing me as the author. Ineither receive compensation for those sales nor do I know who does receive compensation. If you purchase such a book, please beaware that it is a copy of a module that is freely available on cnx.org and that it was made and published withoutmy prior knowledge.
Affiliation : I am a professor of Computer Information Technology at Austin Community College in Austin, TX.
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