[Edu-sig] rewriting examples in python

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:36, roberto <roberto03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am more interested in reimplementing such examples in Turtle Art,
>> and in having a module to translate to Python automatically. Since TA
>> implements each tile in Python, and the source code is provided, this
>> should be an easy exercise.
>>
> i agree;
>
> also, i started this thread since i did not find any *introductory*
> and rich enough resource a school student can use to learn TA or
> turtle module or, broadly speaking, turtle programming in Python (if i
> am wrong, please tell me)

Walter Bender and I are working on such things.

> if nobody else did something in this regard, i'll be happy to do some
> work in this direction as soon as the school end, early june;

What topics are you interested in covering? I'm working on math and
Computer Science topics.

> of course, since my students are very young and with no previous
> programming experience, i'd like to start with TA
>
> let me know also if anyone is doing something similar, to prevent double work
>
> thank you again
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:33, Christian Mascher
>> <christian.mascher at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> roberto wrote:
>>>>
>>>> hello, i found this very famous book
>>>> "Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics
>>>> (Artificial Intelligence)"
>>>> by Harold Abelson and Andrea diSessa
>>>> and i was wondering if anyone of the turtle experts has ever rewritten
>>>> in python the logo examples in the book;
>>>>
>>> Nobody has answered, so probably not. Nevertheless I think its a good idea
>>> to try this. It will probably turn out to be perfectly feasible to do these
>>> examples in Python with the turtle module by Gregor Lingl. And a good
>>> exercise too. If you run into problems let us know.
>>>
>>> --Christian
>>>
>>>> i am more interested in the turtle spirit than in the logo language,
>>>> so i'd like to use python directly along with the book itself
>>>>
>>>> thank you very much in advance
>>>
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Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
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