On Fri, July 15, 2011 2:14 pm, Kirby Urner wrote: >> Then we have a choice of transitioning to Python, supported directly >> within Turtle Art using program blocks; Logo, which we can create as an >> export option from Turtle Art; or the Etoys environment for Smalltalk, >> which can also do turtle graphics using tile-based programming. There >> are >> also stack primitives in TA, so that we can introduce RPN and FORTH >> concepts. I am working on a set of lessons on all of this. Tony Forster >> is also contributing topics handled in Turtle Art. >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Turtle_Art/Tutorials
Ah, yes. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art/Tutorials My apologies. > I only found an empty page here. Coming soon? > > There's a lot of good turtle stuff out there in Python. > > Gregor is a resident master. > > * * * > > My sense is there's no shortage of anything except a willingness to try > new things. > > Innovation is hard to accomplish at the end of the day, simply because > it's easier to keep doing what you were doing -- until it's not. > > Freeing up schools to try new things means not locking them in to > pre-specified curricula complete with state mandated texts and tests. > > Not everyone has such freedoms. > > Kirby > > Note: > > > I've got very primitive "tractor" objects in a field of ascii, just to > show > off 2d data structures, draw Mandelbrots, play Life (OST servers). > > One of the freakiest tractors is a generator that implements the "send" > feature in a weird way: > > http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/OST/thefarm.py > (you can refuel it, change direction, change the mark it makes when it > plows) > > ... depends on the Farm class (a 2d field) here: > http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/OST/farmworld.py > > Here's a silly drawing of how I think of it: > http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/OST/farmer_gen.jpg > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
