[Edu-sig] egyptian fractions...

2011-06-01 Thread kirby urner
Hey Jeff, your question about controlling the turtle's screen might have been just the ticket in my attempts to control chaos, namely G. Lingl's chaos.py, which demonstrates sensitivity to initial conditions is a plus if you want your algebra to stay on the same page as itself, per equalities that

Re: [Edu-sig] (egyptian fractions...) the turtle part: chaos.py

2011-06-01 Thread Gregor Lingl
Am 01.06.2011 22:52, schrieb kirby urner: Hey Jeff, your question about controlling the turtle's screen might have been just the ticket in my attempts to control chaos, namely G. Lingl's chaos.py, which demonstrates sensitivity to initial conditions is a plus if you want your algebra to stay

Re: [Edu-sig] Anyone interested in discussing the turtle module?

2011-06-01 Thread Gregor Lingl
Hi Jeff, I think Corey's solution is the canonical one and quite ok. Just a few remarks concerning the your problem and the turtle module. 1. The present solution for the turtle.Screen() window was introduced by Vern Ceder for the previous module (as far as I rembmber) and had to be retained

Re: [Edu-sig] (egyptian fractions...) the turtle part: chaos.py

2011-06-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 17:52, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote: Am 01.06.2011 22:52, schrieb kirby urner: Hey Jeff, your question about controlling the turtle's screen might have been just the ticket in my attempts to control chaos, namely G. Lingl's chaos.py, which demonstrates

Re: [Edu-sig] (egyptian fractions...) the turtle part: chaos.py

2011-06-01 Thread kirby urner
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote: Hi Kirby, it's fine that you host a slightly amended version of chaos.py on your website. Thanks Gregor. I've also got John Zelle's graphics.py in the docket. Having any backend code is a somewhat new idea. I'm

Re: [Edu-sig] Anyone interested in discussing the turtle module?

2011-06-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 16:59, Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net wrote: Hi All, I'm working on an introductory CS book using Python with the turtle module, Under what license? Can we talk about using Turtle Art in Sugar as a starting point? it can call Python functions assigned to blocks,

Re: [Edu-sig] (egyptian fractions...) the turtle part: chaos.py

2011-06-01 Thread Kirby Urner
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: Baseball stats and turtles? That's something I have been wishing for. I think that the best way to interest children in probability and statistics is sports, including published data and the book Money Ball. Also Nate

Re: [Edu-sig] (egyptian fractions...) the turtle part: chaos.py

2011-06-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 18:56, Kirby Urner kur...@oreillyschool.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: Baseball stats and turtles? That's something I have been wishing for. I think that the best way to interest children in probability and statistics