Gregor Lingl wrote: > Hi educators! > > One of the hardest problems I've encountered upto now > is to decide, when a piece of software is ready to be > be published. > > I've decided, that my new turtle graphics module ready > now. A package, which additionally contains some > example scripts. a tiny demoViewer and some documentation > can be downloaded from: > > http://ada.rg16.asn-wien.ac.at/~python/xturtle >
Very nice! I tried about 10 demos and they all performed very well, except for the muorhuhn game which did not work at all (at least, not from the demo viewer). > From now on it's the user community, which will largely > determine the future development of the module. I hope > that it will grow to more than one user (which is me) > soon. (*) And I'm willing to continue development (preferably > in cooperation with others) until it's considered a really > useful tool by the community. Sorry :-( I'm busy with two other projects (rur-ple and crunchy frog) ... but I would encourage others to have a look. It's really impressive! André > In my opinion it should replace the current turtle.py in > the standard distribution. We will see if others join > me in this respect ... > > (Please note, that xturtle.py is a complete reimplementation > of what I've shown to you some ten weeks ago.) > > For now I'll not write too much about it, but ask you for > feedback and contributions to a discussion about the module. > (You'll find some more information on the webpage mentioned > above!) > > However, I'll give a talk at Europython 2006 on July 5th about: > > xturtle - an extended turtle module for Python as a vehicle > for teaching programming concepts. > > For this, too, your feedback will be welcome. And you'll get > back the slides of the talk ;-) > > Regards, > Gregor Lingl > > (*) This hope seems reasonable since I intend to use it in > the forthcoming 2nd edition of "Python für Kids" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "edupython" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/edupython -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
