Gregor, Well done! xturtle.py is a truly impressive re-implementation and enhancement. I ran all of the demos without problems on a Linux (Ubuntu Dapper) machine and was very impressed with the speed, as well as the number, variety and quality of the demos.
I would certainly think that (after testing ;) ) xturtle might replace the current turtle.py. I had also been thinking about what would be involved in porting turtle.py to Jython and your refactoring makes that a much more appealing possibility. I saw that you were presenting at EuroPython - best of luck with that presentation. I'll be presenting on Python programming at NECC, a national educational computing conference, on July 7, so if you don't mind I will mention xturtle then. One final thought - even though the file is large, I would consider including at least some demo code in the file itself. Maybe it's just me, but I like the idea of being able to demo the module even if it gets separated from all other files in the package. Things like that can happen. :) Cheers, Vern Gregor Lingl wrote: > Hi educators! > > One of the hardest problems I've encountered upto now > is to decide, when a piece of software is ready to be > be published. > > I've decided, that my new turtle graphics module ready > now. A package, which additionally contains some > example scripts. a tiny demoViewer and some documentation > can be downloaded from: > > http://ada.rg16.asn-wien.ac.at/~python/xturtle > > From now on it's the user community, which will largely > determine the future development of the module. I hope > that it will grow to more than one user (which is me) > soon. (*) And I'm willing to continue development (preferably > in cooperation with others) until it's considered a really > useful tool by the community. > > In my opinion it should replace the current turtle.py in > the standard distribution. We will see if others join > me in this respect ... > > (Please note, that xturtle.py is a complete reimplementation > of what I've shown to you some ten weeks ago.) > > For now I'll not write too much about it, but ask you for > feedback and contributions to a discussion about the module. > (You'll find some more information on the webpage mentioned > above!) > > However, I'll give a talk at Europython 2006 on July 5th about: > > xturtle - an extended turtle module for Python as a vehicle > for teaching programming concepts. > > For this, too, your feedback will be welcome. And you'll get > back the slides of the talk ;-) > > Regards, > Gregor Lingl > > (*) This hope seems reasonable since I intend to use it in > the forthcoming 2nd edition of "Python für Kids" > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "edupython" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/edupython > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- This time for sure! -Bullwinkle J. Moose ----------------------------- Vern Ceder, Director of Technology Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
