Hi, probably most of You know Scratch http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Educators
I thought it has quite some pythonic approach (especially, because it is easy to learn), so I tried to "localize" it to Python ;)... You can see the results (and comparison screenshots) http://files.akl.lt/users/jurgis/scratch/python_flavour/ well, parentheses seem to get in a way a bit.. value assignment "=" and "+=" looks ok also clauses look nice -- other languages wouldn't manage this ;) there are problems with placeholders order for lists, but it will be fixed for Scratch 1.4 (comming in 2 weeks) http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=130068 also there is problem with logical equality comparison it is hardcoded somewhere, so I can't change "=" to "==" :/ (but Scratch is opensourced, so this is quite feasible :)) Also Scratch uses messages instead of functions. this is more like throwing/catching exceptions, but still different so I left this as is "When message <blabla> received" ps.: What's the use of all this? well, students could get more used to python while Scratching then it is possible to export Scratch scripts to xml with Chirp http://www.chirp.scratchr.org/ so one can translate them to python Scratch quite follows LOGO paradigm, so xturtle could be mapped to it somehow, I guess.. by the way, XO TurtleArt has python bindings http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2009/02/using-python-blocks-in-turtleart.html -- Jurgis Pralgauskis Don't worry, be happy and make things better ;) http://sagemath.visiems.lt _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
