I was impressed by the Logo (Turtle) class that Dave taught at the ByteWorks class this Saturday.
The students booted to Windows to run "MSWLogo", a Turtle program for Windows. I asked Dave why he didn't run "KTurtle" which is installed on the Debian partitions. He remarked that the version of KTurtle installed on the classroom Debian boxes is version 0.1, which is very buggy. Indeed, the 0.1 version has some show-stopper bugs, such as the turtle showing which direction it's facing. I run Ubuntu Edgy Eft, and found that I have KTurtle 0.6 (The synaptic version is 4:3-5-5-0 ubuntu, whatever the heck that means.) This version has fixed the show-stopper bug that Dave noticed. If we could teach the Logo class using KTurtle, then the students would be able to save their programs to a floppy, and then work on the programs on their new computers as well. How feasible would it be to install KTurtle 0.6 on the Debian boxes? I found KTurtle version 4:3.5.5-1 in this *Debian* repository: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/kturtle The latest version of KTurtle is 0.7, which seems to explain the 4:3.5.5-1 (one higher than my 4:3-5-5-0 ubuntu version) Perhaps we could add this repository to our machines' repositories, and install KTurtle 0.7? Sorry for the long e-mail. --Nate
