[Edu-sig] Reeborg news

[kirby urner]

This is all great news Andre.  Interesting packages that
"dissect themselves" in a "what makes me tick" way are
doubly valuable, at least doubly.

Reeborg's World, which I just visited, looks really
friendly / accessible, a great way to learn.  I starting
move( )-ing immediately.

I look forward to going through this literature (perhaps
including the JavaScript version, as materials to teach
that "very important language" -- VIL? -- are on my radar).

I really like having sites / materials like this to re-visit and
study as I flit about from here to there (was just
in Philadelphia, more bouncing around to come). Thank
you for enriching our shared environment.

Kirby



On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com>wrote:

> The long-time subscribers to this list may remember RUR-PLE (
> https://code.google.com/p/rur-ple/), a Karel-the-robot clone using Python
> that I wrote.  The robot's name in my version is Reeborg, hence the title
> of this post.
>
> Since the last version was produced in 2009, RUR-PLE had been downloaded
> more than 11,000 times.  Since people that download it do not need to
> contact me to do so, it is only through serependity that I find out where
> it is used.  I know that it has been used by elementary school children in
> Austria, by high school children in New Jersey and by university students
> in the U.S. and Latin America as a tool to introduce Python.
>
> << SNIP >>
>


>
> I welcome any comments & suggestions about Reeborg's world; please feel
> free to email me directly.
>
> This time, I will probably include a page on the site where I will ask
> teachers that use it to communicate with me to let me know in what context
> they use it, and keep track of it on a "wall of fame".
>
>
>
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