On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Corey Richardson <kb1...@aim.com> wrote:
> 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 >> 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 >> >> 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 > Right, the turtle and Tkinter are GUI apps, but the OP said they connect with the -Y parameter for X11 forwarding, so it should open an X11 window on their machines - this is standard behavior for ssh. And the OP said turtle was not found, not that a screen couldn't be opened. Cheers, Vern -- Vern Ceder vce...@gmail.com, vce...@dogsinmotion.com The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW
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