There's a piece on me in Dr. Dobb's Developer Diaries!
In his keynote at PyCon, Eben Upton, the Executive Director of the Rasberry Pi Foundation, mentioned that not only has Minecraft been ported to the Rasberry Pi, but you can even control it with Python. Since four of my kids are avid Minecraft fans, I figured this might be a good time to teach them to program using Python. So I started yesterday with the goal of programming something cool for Minecraft and then showing it off at the San Francisco Python Meetup in the evening.
The first problem that I faced was that I didn't have a Rasberry Pi. You can't hack Minecraft by just installing the Minecraft client. Speaking of which, I didn't have the Minecraft client installed either ;) My kids always play it on their Nexus 7s. I found an open source Minecraft server called Bukkit that "provides the means to extend the popular Minecraft multiplayer server." Then I found a plugin called RaspberryJuice that implements a subset of the Minecraft Pi modding API for Bukkit s…
The first problem that I faced was that I didn't have a Rasberry Pi. You can't hack Minecraft by just installing the Minecraft client. Speaking of which, I didn't have the Minecraft client installed either ;) My kids always play it on their Nexus 7s. I found an open source Minecraft server called Bukkit that "provides the means to extend the popular Minecraft multiplayer server." Then I found a plugin called RaspberryJuice that implements a subset of the Minecraft Pi modding API for Bukkit s…
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At my new company I need to unittest everything and this is new for me. I was doing wild west code before :)
Maybe a zsh how to for the python inclined would be sweet as well! Keep up the good work.
Thanks ;)
> I would love to see some articles on how you use agile techniques in python.
Well, Titus is the expert there, not me. All I have to offer is this:
http://jjinux.blogspot.com/search/label/testing
> Maybe a zsh how to for the python inclined would be sweet as well!
Well, if you just want a "Pythonic" shell, ipython can be used as a UNIX shell as well. I like zsh because it's a "tricked out" version of Bash.
Most of what I know about zsh I learned from:
http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Intro/intro_toc.html
My favorite features are:
* Recursive star: gvim **/*.py
* Really smart tab completion.
* Smart, right-side prompts: RPROMPT='(%~)'