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I was out of LD23, but now I’m back and I’m IN!
…FOR SCIENCE!
So, quick story: I’m now a high school teacher! Today was my first class ever! Hooray! What am I teaching, you may ask? Why Game Design, of course! Now, my class will only have met two times come this weekend, so I doubt any of my students will be able to participate, but I wanted to use LD24 as an opportunity to show that how much you can do even with only the TINIEST amount of programming know-how and time. That being said; here’s the tools I’ll be using this weekend:
Python 2.7
NOTHING ELSE WHATSOEVER!
That’s right! No external libraries, not even PyGame. No Sound. No graphics. I’ll also ONLY use the most basic techniques in programming; those I expect to cover in the first two weeks of class. This means the only programming constructs I’ll use are:
Basic text/number I/O, basic math and conditional structures, basic if/else, simple variables types (INT/STRING/maybe FLOAT), basic looping structures (For… maybe WHILE). I may through in an “import random”… and then two 2nd-week concepts I may use for sanity’s sake; simple function declarations and lists.
My goal is to create a fun, text-based game in 48 that can show my students what sorts of power is at your fingertips even with only a few hours of programming experience if you are creative about it. Once they’ve covered all the topics I mentioned above, I’ll give them 2 weeks to create a game of their own, and we’ll see what they can come up with 
You’re a cool teacher.
I’m also a High School teacher, and I am planning to participate in LD24 with a few of my students, though they are a little bit more experienced than yours (But just a little )
And Python is a good choice for beginners !
And I would surely showcase your Python game for my students, I am sure they would find it lovely
This sounds like an awesome approach to teaching. Good luck with your game!
Nice, man. I wish we had people who teach like that in my school.
Careful, you might give them the idea that they can put it off ’till the last two days before it’s due. ;P
I kid, that’s awesome.
This is awesome.
> (For… maybe WHILE)
Careful there, you almost went overboard with features. For AND while? That’s nuts!