From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-04-01T02:25:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] LittleCoder 0.4

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 09:01:11PM +0900, Luciano Ramalho wrote:
> That's way cool, Harold. I happen to teach programming and I often
> talk about that predicament (even though I did not know about _why's
> article until I read your post).
> 
> I'm a Linux and OSX user however, so I think having LittleCoder run on
> top of SDL [1] would make it even cooler.
> 
> [1] http://www.libsdl.org/
> 
> There are already a couple of Ruby-SDL bindings available. How hard
> would it be to port LittleCoder? I'd like to check that, but I'm not
> sure when I'll be able to look deeper into this, though.
> 
> Nevertheless, great idea, Harold!

There's always the cross-platform open source UCBLogo, which provides
an excellent advancement path from simple and easy (think "Turtle
Graphics") all the way up to m-expression based Lisp dialect with
macros.  It's not strictly on-topic for a Ruby list, but still a very
good idea, in my opinion.

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