[soc2008-general] Carcode : The Future

[Toby Donaldson]

I really like xturtle, and have used it extensively. But carcode has
some differences:

- It's about cars: you start/stop, on the indicators when turning,
turn on/off break lights, etc. The cars also behave like real cars:
they don't stop or turn on a dime, and so it is challenging to do the
equivalent of turtle.left(180) in carcode (as with a real car, you
could only do this by driving around in large enough space).

- The cars are meant to be controlled autonomously: they have sensors,
such as "pixel color sensors", so they can see lines on the road and
stay between them. This would then allow you to attempt a problem such
as turning your car to face the opposite direction in an *unknown*
environment, with only yellow/white lines on the road to guide you.

Toby


On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Alan G Isaac <aisaac at american.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Unni apparently wrote:
>  > I was thinking of taking this up and turning it into
>  > a complete environment from within which a seventh grader
>  > or above can learn and enjoy the various aspects of
>  > python.
>
>  Is there yet any connection with xturtle?
>  <URL:http://www.rg16.asn-wien.ac.at/~python/xturtle/>
>
>  Cheers,
>  Alan Isaac
>
>
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-- 
Dr. Toby Donaldson
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University (Surrey)