Python for a 10-14 years old?

[Joal Heagney]

Joal Heagney wrote:
> Duncan Booth wrote:
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>> Joal Heagney wrote:
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>>> 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!)
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>> What was wrong with hiding the turtle? 'turtle.tracer(False)' usually 
>> does it nicely and speeds things up a lot.
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> 
> 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

Whoop. That WAS a speedup!!! :)

Joal