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Great post. And kudos to the groundbreaking work by Eben Upton and others in Cambridge, for giving the Raspberry PI to us so this kind of effort can now happen
by jll29 5y ago
Great post. And kudos to the groundbreaking work by Eben Upton and others in Cambridge, for giving the Raspberry PI to us so this kind of effort can now happen anywhere in the world at minimum cost.
PyTurtle is a great library for educational use - I used it to teach 11-year-olds in Scotland how to draw a house. The approach take was: instruct pupils to draw a house on paper, using only straight lines; teach them briefly what a coordinate system is (assigning numeric addresses - pairs of numbers - to points), which they haven't had in their maths curriculum at that stage, but which they easily picked up; translate the paper-based house into a sequence of PyTurtle Python commands.
- mathgenius 5y agoBut turtles do not use coordinates, if anything they use (relative) polar coordinates ... Oh, maybe you first coordinatize the house drawing and then make turtle commands from that? It seems that turtle programs don't need any mathematical priming....
- jacquesm 5y agoPolar coordinates are coordinates too, and besides they can use cartesian coordinates as well as long as you use 'up', 'down', 'right' and 'left' commands, after all the fact that they are relative doesn't really matter all that much.
- gorgoiler 5y agofrom turtle import * goto(20, 0) goto(40, -30) # etc turtle.py first introduced by G van Rossum in 1998.
- pjmlp 5y agoWhile the achievements on PI cannot be denied, BeagleBoard happened in 2008, Panda Board appeared in 2010, while PI exists since 2012.