[Tutor] little pythons

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> a 12-year old.  I know that Seymor Papert of MIT was very enthusiastic
> about teaching LOGO to children.  He desribes his experiences in a book

I used LOGO to teach a 14 year old and it was quite successful.
Unfortunately LOGO is more like LISP than any of the 'normal' 
languages so making the transition to VB or even Python is a 
big jump...

> (and links to download them).  Pyhon does have a turtle module, so dear to
> the hearts of LOGO-minded people, so it is certainly possible to start
> python, and then do something like 

Oh dear, I know Turtle graphics started with Logo but Logo is 
much more than that. It is a full list prpocessing language 
like lisp. The turtle graphics are only one small part 
and pretty boring in my experience unless you have one of 
the proper turtle robots that crawls over the floor!

>>> import turtle
>>> joe = turtle.Pen()
>>> lisa = turtle.Pen()
>>> joe.down()
>>> joe.forward(50)
>>> lisa.right()

But if you want to use turtle graphics logo, smalltalk and yes, 
python will all do a spliendid job. 


Alan G.