Comments | eel_grass: July 28th, 2010

eel_grass

July 28th, 2010

Jul 29, 2010 00:38

I know I'm constantly boring you with the products of my work time research into all things digital, but this will be the last such entry for a while, I promise. Tomorrow, I'll write you a poem.

Turtle Art!
I first heard about turtle graphics in connection with One Laptop Per Child, an organization that gives the poorest children in the world ( Read more... )

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Code Pics anonymous July 29 2010, 03:50:25 UTC

...pics of the code, please! ;)

It's cooler-looking in Turtle Art than in most programming environments. ...for now!

Code Pics 2 anonymous July 29 2010, 03:52:21 UTC

...my bad. I just noticed that you did include some code.

I was thinking of what it looks like on the XO laptop (AKA OLPC), with it's interlocking blocks representing code elements.

eel_grass July 29 2010, 04:06:52 UTC

Not your bad. I added the code in the time between your two comments. I'd like to try turtleing with the interlocking blocks GUI, but I expect I'd want back to typing pretty fast.

kutnitijna July 29 2010, 16:53:10 UTC

Hi sis,

OLPC was a great idea, but it has been improved-upon.
:-)
I was just reading on the CBC earlier this week that in India they have developed a Linux-based iPad-like computer which costs only $35 USD (The OLPC ones were $100ish USD, right?). It seems like a pretty nifty creation.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/23/india-computer-cheap.html