On 01/01/2011 09:38 PM, Vern Ceder wrote:
Pardon my jumping in, but is turtle available from the interactive
shell? The turtle module should be in /usr/lib/Python2.6/lib-tk on an
Ubuntu 10.4 installation. If it is, then it should work fine from your
scripts. Is it available for you when you log onto the machine directly?
Cheers,
Vern
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:12 PM, A. Jorge Garcia <calcp...@aol.com
<mailto:calcp...@aol.com>> wrote:
Oh, I maybe see the problem, you're talking about more like a dumb
terminal setup with X running in a server session if at all. You're
going over the
network to get Python.
<<
Something like that...
Do they get a GUI desktop? GNOME?
<<
Well, I set up 25 PCs in my classroom on a gigabit LAN. Each PC is
running Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 - so, yes they have gnome and yes they
have a GUI browser (Firefox).
I took one of these PCs and called it the "server/teacher station."
On this PC I added vsftp to share files with my students and
openssh so they can login to my PC as a server to save their work.
I call my PC the "teacher station" because I use it with a PC
Projector and a Slate (bluetooth remote mouse) mimicking a
SmartBoard setup to demo code and give notes and even show some
educational YouTube! I recently added python and IDLE to this server:
apt-get install python
apt-get install idle
We tried IDLE but prefer python scripts. So, I have my students
login to the server via ssh from their "student stations" and write
python scripts like hello.py which they chmod to make executable
chmod 755 hello.py
which works fine if the first line in the script is
#!/usr/bin/python
I tried to import turtle in a script using this environment but
turtle was not found.
You say VPython works well with IDLE? I was hoping to add VPython,
GASP or turtle graphics to my scripts.
What do you think?
TIA,
A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math and CompSci
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009
_______________________________________________
Edu-sig mailing list
Edu-sig@python.org <mailto:Edu-sig@python.org>
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
--
Vern Ceder
vce...@gmail.com <mailto:vce...@gmail.com>, vce...@dogsinmotion.com
<mailto:vce...@dogsinmotion.com>
The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW
_______________________________________________
Edu-sig mailing list
Edu-sig@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
From what I've read so far, the students are SSHing into a sever, and
writing their scripts from there (nano, vi, etc?). AFAIK, SSH is usually
just shell, which means no GUI from the host, and they can't use turtle
because it is a GUI app, using Tkinter IIRC.
_______________________________________________
Edu-sig mailing list
Edu-sig@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
