[Edu-sig] alpha release of carcode (v3)

[Winston Wolff]

Ah, so it is an exercise in programming Python, that is very  
interesting.  Much better than teaching how to add numbers with  
Python.  I'll check it out.

-Winston


On Jul 17, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Toby Donaldson wrote:

> It's intended just as a "microworld" for programming exercises for
> beginning Python programmers (not necessarily kids). There are no
> plans to make it anything more than a Python package.
>
> Toby
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Winston Wolff  
> <winstonw at stratolab.com> wrote:
>> Hi Toby-
>>
>> What are you trying to teach with CarCode?  I'm wondering how it  
>> programming
>> compares to Scratch ( http://scratch.mit.edu )?  Is it intended to
>> compliment learning programming with Scratch?
>>
>> -Winston
>>
>>
>> On Jul 17, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Toby Donaldson wrote:
>>
>>> Carcode, a project aimed at helping beginners learn to program by
>>> controlling an animated robot car, has just been released in alpha:
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/carcode/wiki/README
>>>
>>> Here are some screenshots:
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/carcode/wiki/Screenshots
>>>
>>> This release is entirely the work of Carlos Daniel Ruvalcaba
>>> Valenzuela, who has been doing a great job on carcode as part of  
>>> this
>>> year's Google Summer of Code.
>>>
>>> Toby
>>> --
>>> Dr. Toby Donaldson
>>> School of Computing Science
>>> Simon Fraser University (Surrey)
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>>
>> Winston Wolff
>> Stratolab - Kids exploring computers, comics, and robots
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>>
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Dr. Toby Donaldson
> School of Computing Science
> Simon Fraser University (Surrey)

Winston Wolff
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