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"


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