[Edu-sig] Any suggestions about turlte.py
Vern Ceder
vceder at canterburyschool.org
Mon Feb 27 20:31:30 CET 2006
Hello everyone,
As a consequence of my complaining about it in my PyCon talk, I have
been invited to submit some patches for turtle.py. To my mind, turtle.py
should be something that one could actually use for some very simple
"programming with graphics" lessons, with NO tweaking or additional
software.
So I think the following would be handy:
1. equally usable with either "import * from turtle" or "import turtle"
imports
2. should open with a window covering at least half the screen (the
current default is too small to be useful)
3. should offer some simple configuration choices for things like
initial size and shape, but mostly rely on reasonable defaults
4. should offer a class wrapper so that that one could easily
instantiate different turtles for a first experience with objects.
5. some minor tweaks to make it better behaved when run from IDLE
Does anyone have any feedback on these ideas or any other suggestions
about how turtle.py might be improved without being fundamentally changed?
Note: this is about turtle.py only, for all its deficiencies. Any
suggestions to try another library, system, or language will be
cheerfully, but resolutely, ignored. ;)
Cheers,
Vern Ceder
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This time for sure!
-Bullwinkle J. Moose
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Vern Ceder, Director of Technology
Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804
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