Python for a 10-14 years old?

[Joal Heagney]

Duncan Booth wrote:
> Joal Heagney wrote:
> 
> 
>>Nice. I still have to download a version of pygame to try this out, but 
>>the fact that you can't hide the turtle in python.turtle was bugging me 
>>out with my version. (A fair bit of copy/paste in gimp, I can tell you!)
> 
> 
> What was wrong with hiding the turtle? 'turtle.tracer(False)' usually does 
> it nicely and speeds things up a lot.

Ahhah! Thanks for that.

I also noticed that I got severe speed hits if the Xwindows mouse was 
over the turtle tk window while the program was running.

BTW. How do I move the turtle to a new location without drawing anything?

Joal