Re: [Edu-sig] suggestions about turtle.py

2006-02-28 Thread Vern Ceder
Everyone, It seems that many of us (probably to our mutual surprise) have use for the humble turtle. I want to get an improved, backward compatible patch into the standard package fairly soon, so over the next few days I will see if I can't come up with something that covers most of the ideas

Re: [Edu-sig] suggestions about turtle.py

2006-03-01 Thread Christian Mascher
Hi all, some years ago I had to teach using a macintosh lab: due to some problems with Tk on mac there was no Idle (and no turtle.py IIRC). That was when I realized how useful the "batteries included" Idle (-n) together with the old turle.py really was for me. It is my standard "graphics pack

Re: [Edu-sig] suggestions about turtle.py

2006-03-04 Thread Scott David Daniels
Just for fun I stole some of the turtle code, added docstrings, used complex as position format, and made a small (but not entirely minimal) turtle class. I figured this might do as a straw-man for Myrtle the Minimal Turtle. I do like Christian Mascher's idea of making a turtle with a contained