[Pythonmac-SIG] My stab at a new page

[Bill Janssen]

> Case in point.  The other day I volunteered some time at the local 
> elementary school and the computer teacher was looking for something to 
> give to some more advanced 10 to 12 year olds.   I told him that his 
> Mac's all have python installed and it comes with a turtle graphics 
> module. "Turtle?", he says.   "Does it work like the old Logo system?"  
> After ten minutes of showing him how to get started and answering 
> things like "What's this terminal window thing" he's off and running 
> and very excited.   It cost him very little time, no money out of his 
> budget, no software to install on 30 machines, and suddenly he has a 
> whole new tool to play with and expose his kids to some simple 
> programming concepts.  Now he's off learning python.   That's how it 
> should work for a newbie.

Wow!  Great success story, Karl.

Bill