[Edu-sig] Starting Python

[Andre Roberge]

On 1/20/06, Winston Wolff <winstonw at stratolab.com> wrote:
> Indeed, I haven't written any documentation since I have received no
> feedback that anybody is actually using it.  Although that's probably and
> chicken and egg situation.
>
> What I liked most about DrawBot was that you could write a few lines and the
> click RUN to see your program run.  That was much easier to teach than
> BBedit for editing and a separate  Terminal window to run the program.  I
> also looked at IDLE for this purpose, but I didn't like it.
>

This looks like a very interesting idea.  I have looked at the
screenshot on your website and have a few questions:
1. How specific to the Mac is it?  From your website, it seems to be
an absolute requirement. Is the source code available?  [I am a
Windows user.]
2. I noticed a "stop" button.  I'm curious as to how you have
implemented this functionality - as well as the possibility to "drop
down" to the interpreter level at the end of a script.  After seeing
it, I would like to add this capability in my own programming learning
environment.

André