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Then we have a choice of transitioning to Python, supported directly<br>
within Turtle Art using program blocks; Logo, which we can create as an<br>
export option from Turtle Art; or the Etoys environment for Smalltalk,<br>
which can also do turtle graphics using tile-based programming. There are<br>
also stack primitives in TA, so that we can introduce RPN and FORTH<br>
concepts. I am working on a set of lessons on all of this. Tony Forster is<br>
also contributing topics handled in Turtle Art.<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Turtle_Art/Tutorials" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Turtle_Art/Tutorials</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>I only found an empty page here. Coming soon?<br><br>There's a lot of good turtle stuff out there in Python. <br><br>Gregor is a resident master.<br><br> * * *<br><br>My sense is there's no shortage of anything except a willingness to try new things.<br>
<br>Innovation is hard to accomplish at the end of the day, simply because it's easier to keep doing what you were doing -- until it's not.<br><br>Freeing up schools to try new things means not locking them in to pre-specified curricula complete with state mandated texts and tests.<br>
<br>Not everyone has such freedoms.<br><br>Kirby<br><br>Note:<br><br><br>
I've got very primitive "tractor" objects in a field of ascii, just to
show off 2d data structures, draw Mandelbrots, play Life (OST servers).<br>
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One of the freakiest tractors is a generator that implements the "send" feature in a weird way:<br>
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<a href="http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/OST/thefarm.py">http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/OST/thefarm.py</a><br>
(you can refuel it, change direction, change the mark it makes when it plows)<br>
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... depends on the Farm class (a 2d field) here:<br>
<a href="http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/OST/farmworld.py">http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/OST/farmworld.py</a><br>
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Here's a silly drawing of how I think of it:<br>
<a href="http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/OST/farmer_gen.jpg">http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/OST/farmer_gen.jpg</a><br>
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