Linux in the TDSB

[Anton Markov]

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Taavi Burns wrote:
|>1) Basic conditional statements, loops, function calls.
|>This is done in Turing through "fun" activities like animating circles :(
|>
|>I would recommend a simple test editor with a "run" and "step through"
|>button. The language used would be python, but stripped down so that
|>when the user types 'print "Hello World"' (or whatever it is in Python;
|>I don't know the language :( ), it outputs that text.
|
|
| That's exactly the syntax.  :)  You don't have to strip anything down,
either.
| From your shell, type "python".  You're then left at a Python prompt,
from which
| you can immediately type 'print "Hello World"', and it will.
|
Even better.

|>Adding some wrapper functions to standard GTK calls for drawing circles,
|>lines, squares, etc. and outputting to a GTK windows would be enought to
|>surpass the basic Turing functionality.
|
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| The wxWindows cross-platform widget set has the wxPython bindings.  That
| will give you native look-and-feel wherever it runs.
Widgets probably don't matter at this stage. A single window will do, so
long as one can draw stuff onto it. For example, Turing makes it very
easy to draw basic geometric figures into a Window; something I haven't
seen in any other language yet (of those I've used). For example, to
draw a circle:

setscreen("graphics:640;480)
drawfilloval(100,100,40,40,red)

would draw a circle at (100,100) with a radius of 40 and red in color. I
am sure it would be trivial to write a library implementing something
similar in Python. It makes learning programming fun for the more
"artistic" people.


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