On 8/12/06, Scott Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip - discussion about what is needed to get rur-ple working within a browser; first, getting a "world builder"]
> I'd suggest making world building work in the browser without an external > application. This should be easily done with information from these examples: [many good reference sites containing examples deleted...] > >[André wrote:] > > Any help of any kind (even creating little toy programs/samples) would > > be appreciated! > > I'll see what I can do! > > Scott Now that Scott has volunteered publicly ;-), I thought I'd issue a challenge to other edu-sig subscribers: Who is interested in writing a short mini-tutorial (it can be a single html page, a few screen long) on a topic of interest to you, that would involve the reader into trying out the code (even if it's simply executing it by clicking button, but ideally should suggest trying out changes, etc.) and which could be included in Crunchy's distribution? For example, would Gregor be interested in writing a short intro to x-turtle? Or do you have a short doctest-based tutorial you've been thinking about? Or perhaps, you've been thinking of possible exercices to use with "How to think like a computer scientist". As for "rur-ple", one "conceptual hurdle" I was facing was how to reproduce the ability to start/pause/resume the program which was relatively easy to do with Python but which seems much more complicated with javascript (given that javascript animations use either setTimeout or setInterval to get them started ... with no obvious hook into a way to pause and resume the animation). However, inspired by Scott's search, I searched some more on my own and found the following: http://www.adrian.zentner.name/content/projects/javascript/easyAnimation/index.html Anyone interested in working on javascript-based animation to be included within Crunchy (and accessible by the end user by programming in pure Python) is welcome to join in! André _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
