Erik Hansen wrote:
to get Turtle Graphics back on the map will require standalone teacher-proof teaching sequences that capable teachers can extend in their own way. i still think TG is the most intuitive way to learn geometry and programming and look forward to the new release.===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikhansen.org
Ah, a kindred spirit!
I have long had a special interest in using xTalk & TG as means to teach programing to science students. In 1985 I wrote a short book (Logo Physics, Holt Rinehart & Winston) hoping to kick start the process.
It didn't fare very well. I don't think Logo is the right language. The primary appeal of Logo (a poor man's version of LISP) was TG.
I have translated/revamped that book into a text for High School students but it exists only as a Word document at the present time.
I am sure Erik is right about the serious roadblocks to putting x-Talk and TG into the the school curriculum. Most High Schools are very rigidly institutions.
I have sent a Transcript/TG Demo stack to Heather to post on the Rev web site. (I hope it goes into the Educators page. I don't think this will have much appeal to developers. My apologies for taking up this much space already.) I can also include the Word ms. which might serve as an open-source text for such a course.
As a physicist, you might imagine that the book is dominated by physics, and you would be right, but there is some biology and a fair bit of mathematics.
Jim Hurley
Emeritus Prof. of Physics, Univ. of Calif.
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