[Edu-sig] Anyone interested in discussing the turtle module?

[Jeff Elkner]

Hi Edward,

The book is licensed under the GNU/FDL and is available here:

http://www.openbookproject.net/thinkcs

I'm very familiar with Turtle Art, since a college intern working with
me last Summer did a Sugar to Gnome port of it, which in now in the
debian repositories:

http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=turtleart

This Summer we will work to get that into Fedora.

While as a classroom teacher I'm a huge fan of turtle art, Python's
own turtle module is the tool of choice for my current intro college
leve textbook project, since it runs on all major platforms and is
part of the Python standard library.

Thanks!

jeff elkner
open book project
http://openbookproject.net

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 16:59, Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm working on an introductory CS book using Python with the turtle
>> module,
>
> Under what license?
>
> Can we talk about using Turtle Art in Sugar as a starting point? it
> can call Python functions assigned to blocks, providing an easy
> transition from pure TA to pure Python. We have support for various
> other CS topics on TA blocks, including stack operations. I am
> planning to write a Turing machine in TA, using colored dots as cells
> on the tape and instructions in the transition table.
>
>> but I'm finding the inability of turtle.Screen() to take
>> screen size arguments to be a real pain.  The screen size appears to
>> depend on the screen size of the host environment, which means
>> standardizing screen shots for the book becomes impossible.
>>
>> Any thoughts on this issue?  It would be a huge help in promoting
>> Python's use in education if we could make use of such a potentially
>> fine module as the turtle module, but I'm finding it very difficult to
>> write curriculum materials that use it since students don't have
>> control over the turtle's screen in any easy to use way.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> jeff elkner
>> open book project
>> http://openbookproject.net
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