[Edu-sig] rewriting examples in python

[roberto]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:36, roberto <roberto03 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am more interested in reimplementing such examples in Turtle Art,
>>> and in having a module to translate to Python automatically. Since TA
>>> implements each tile in Python, and the source code is provided, this
>>> should be an easy exercise.
>>>
>> i agree;
>>
>> also, i started this thread since i did not find any *introductory*
>> and rich enough resource a school student can use to learn TA or
>> turtle module or, broadly speaking, turtle programming in Python (if i
>> am wrong, please tell me)
>
> Walter Bender and I are working on such things.
>
>> if nobody else did something in this regard, i'll be happy to do some
>> work in this direction as soon as the school end, early june;
>
> What topics are you interested in covering? I'm working on math and
> Computer Science topics.

well, i am interested in working with students on introductory CS topics;
by the way, this will be useful to introduce also basic geometry topics;

after that, the interest of the students will lead their learning,
whose directions i cannot predict by now ...
where will you publish your tutorial/manual ?

thank you in advance

>
>> of course, since my students are very young and with no previous
>> programming experience, i'd like to start with TA
>>
>> let me know also if anyone is doing something similar, to prevent double work
>>
>> thank you again
>>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:33, Christian Mascher
>>> <christian.mascher at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> roberto wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> hello, i found this very famous book
>>>>> "Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics
>>>>> (Artificial Intelligence)"
>>>>> by Harold Abelson and Andrea diSessa
>>>>> and i was wondering if anyone of the turtle experts has ever rewritten
>>>>> in python the logo examples in the book;
>>>>>
>>>> Nobody has answered, so probably not. Nevertheless I think its a good >>>>idea
>>>> to try this. It will probably turn out to be perfectly feasible to do these
>>>> examples in Python with the turtle module by Gregor Lingl. And a good
>>>> exercise too. If you run into problems let us know.
>>>>
>>>> --Christian
>>>>
>>>>> i am more interested in the turtle spirit than in the logo language,
>>>>> so i'd like to use python directly along with the book itself
>>>>>
>>>>> thank you very much in advance
>>>>
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> Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
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roberto