[Fwd: Re: [Edu-sig] Would a simplified Python UI for MiddleSchool students be worth the effort?]

Gregor Lingl glingl@aon.at
Tue, 08 Jul 2003 18:59:32 +0200


plese look at the OOPS - ATTENTION - posting !!!

Kirby Urner schrieb:

> At 10:51 AM 7/8/2003 +0200, Gregor Lingl wrote:
>
>> Could this be part of your well-roundet diet? (Aims at visualizing
>> some fundamental concepts of computer-science)
>
>
> Sure, why not?  Plus you remind me to think more about multi-
> language programming (in the sense of variable, class and
> function names).
>
> This looks sort of like an L-systems setup, yes?  

Yes.

> I'd forgotten
> what the L stands for.

L - indenmayer, he was a biologist who invented this in 1968 (!) to
model shapes of plants.

>
> FYI I also used Python to play with L-systems in July 2000 at
> http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/lsystems.html
> (not a completed project -- lots of broken links by now; I
> should go back and clean up that page).
>
> I'll run your code later (taking it with me on my laptop as
> I head down to OSCON for day 2).

Hmmm! Hope you received my tturtle-module correction in time.

Regards, Gregor

>
> Kirby
>