designer 0.6.6

Student-friendly and evidence-based visual graphics library.

Designer

An interactive graphics library designed with student data to learn Python.

Installation

Install from the command line:

pip install designer

Or install from this repository.

Documentation

Find the documentation for Designer here.

External Resources

• Designer takes heavily from Spyral, and shares a maintainer in @acbart
• Designer's emoji support is via Twemoji
  • Copyright 2020 Twitter, Inc and other contributors
  • Code licensed under the MIT License: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
  • Graphics licensed under CC-BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Designer is obviously built on Pygame

Future

• Make group use the Spyral View mechanims. Provide a "frozen group" and a "dynamic group".
• Support for turtle style graphics, using animations
• More basic shapes like triangle, star, ...?
• Handle potential collision checks "if the object were placed here", circular, etc.
• Update documentation to explain the destroy function
• Improve the error handling in as many situations as possible

Contributors

Special thanks to:

• Robert Deaton (@rdeaton) for the creation of Spyral, which is the basis for Designer
• @codeBodger for adding in functionality for font files