The first time I encountered Python was in 1999 when there was a desktop 3D engine scriptable in Python. The engine was presented in a local deadwood magazine. The engine was called Alice.
Looks like Alice is still around
Last update from September.
Looks like Alice is still around
Last update from September.
Don Slater and Wanda Dann (two of the original Alice team members) were extremely approachable and helped me build a darn good high school CS curriculum that offered many classes for kids in a pretty low socioeconomic school on Colorado's front range. Don even was an old-school tabletop sports gamer who played a lot of Paydirt (an Avalon Hill title) back in the day.
I was a bit of throwback and taught kids text editors, SVN (they just wanted to use "Dropbox" to collaborate), and Linux (my classroom was a Linux LAN and it was pretty fun to teach kids how to administer it with me)--I appreciated Alice as a great way to get kids working on day 1 on programming concepts.
Using recursive methods to make a shark attack a person swimming in the ocean was one of the lessons I used to teach. In fact, if you want to pretend you're a freshman in Intro to Computing, my lesson (for the level 4 challenge: the advanced level) is still in Vimeo:
Be kind :-) I was stretched so thin. I basically created the entire HS CS curriculum (except for APCS), and I would create these screencasts just in time, adjusting them as necessary for my students that year.
https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnerErrorsWithPythonProgram...
Everyone has riding Java hypetrain in 00s. Long term and as a hindsight, might not have been the best choice.
http://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/reverse-engineering-frank-her...
- Civilization (one of them)
- Eve Online (Stackless Python)
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Civ/Civilization_IV/Modding/Tu...
I faintly remember seeing boost.python dlls in the install directory 15 something years ago.
Same for sims4