From: Ryan Tarpine Date: 2001-10-21T01:27:25+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:22836] Re: Teaching children to program using Ruby Avdi B. Grimm wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 09:31, jweirich@one.net wrote: > >>During the discussion of Pete's talk at RubyConf, the idea of turtle >>graphics for Ruby came up. I played around with this idea During >>OOPLSA and came up with some initial code and managed to demo it >>during the Ruby Birds of a Feather talk. Essentially, it will allow >>you to do stuff like the following (in irb)... >> > > Would somebody mind enlightening me as to what "turtle graphics" are? > Thanks. > > ~Avdi > > > A simple picture-drawing language used to introduce children to programming. Generally taught in grade school, and as I am only in high school now, I remember it all too well :) One guided a little "turtle" which was really a placemarker for a pen. You gave commands like "fd 10" (to move forward 10 places) or "rt 90" (to turn right 90 degrees). Look at http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/logo/logo.html -- Ryan Tarpine, rtarpine@hotmail.com "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle" -- Abraham Lincoln