[Edu-sig] experiences teaching Python with turtle graphics?

[John Zelle]

On Friday 17 November 2006 8:07 am, Ernesto Costa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Returning to the question of a "good" module about graphics. I'm
> using Zohn Zelle's book for my course. It has a interesting and
> simple to use graphics module. It would be nice if that module could
> be "merged" with xturtle i.e to incorporate a turtle class that use
> the graphics canvas :-)!
>

One project that we often use in my classes is writing a simple turtle module 
on top of graphics.py. It's a great exercise for introducing students to 
writing their own classes. Still, I have to say that xturtle looks very 
interesting, and this might be a great combination. I haven't looked at 
xturtle's implementation in any detail, so I don't have any sense on how hard 
such a merger would be.

--John


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