Andre Roberge schrieb: > On 3/1/06, Gregor Lingl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > >>...
> Have you (/they) considered something like Guido van Robot, or RUR-PLE? When I was younger, in 1986, together with friends I wrote a schoolbook called "Werkzeug Computer" ("Werkzeug"=tool). Then I implemented a version of "Karel the Robot" in Turbo Pascal. It was a complete IDE with syntax colouring, visual tracing etc etc. The compiled code was 64k - 20 bytes approx, which was the utmost limit of Turbo Pascal 3.0 then. It was a big success and was used by some Austrian teachers until recently. (I think it still can be run in a DOS - Window.) A short time afterwards I leared to know Logo, and so turtle graphics also. Now I find this more rewarding. It provides nearly every advantage of the Robot plus a lot more freedom and space for new ideas. (*) If I had the time, I'd like to translate also GvR or RUR_PLE to German, but now I'm involved in my Turtle-Project and maybe there will be a second edition of my book "Python für Kids" - (I well remember, that you asked me for an English translation one or two years ago.) During the last few month together with Mike Müller from Leipzig I've completed a (still "raw") translation of "How to think like a computer scientist - the Python way" to German. (German readers may find it here: http://ada.rg16.asn-wien.ac.at/~python/how2think/ and are invited for feedback ...) You see, I'm really a fan of providing different ways ... But currently RUR-PLE surpasses my capacities for the moment. If you know of a German translation on the way, let me know. Maybe I can put a short section or at least a hint to it in my book....) Best wishes Gregor (*) If you tried out my Xturtle-examples you could easily grasp, what I mean with this. -- Gregor Lingl Reisnerstrasse 3/19 A-1030 Wien Telefon: +43 1 713 33 98 Mobil: +43 664 140 35 27 Website: python4kids.net _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig