On 01/01/2011 10:01 PM, Vern Ceder wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Corey Richardson <kb1...@aim.com
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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.
>
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> 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
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>
Whoops, guess I missed the -Y switch. Nevermind :)
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