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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Karel the Robot
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Date: 16 Sep 88 18:18:03 GMT
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From article <856@yunexus.UUCP>, by peter@yunexus.UUCP (Peter Roosen-Runge):
> I am looking for the titles and authors of  two introductory programming
> texts, written, I believe, in the early 80s, both of which had the theme
> of developing programs  to control a simple "robot".

I don't remember the author of the Karel book.  But I do remember the
two bizarre guys in my freshman dorm at CMU who were so taken with Karel
that they spent a month making three right turns when they wanted to
make a left down a hallway:-)

[Karel is a simulated robot in a two-d universe.  It was deliberately
designed to have a minimal amount of primatives.  Specifically:
turn-right, move, pick-up-beeper, put-down-beeper, check-for-beeper and
I think that's it.  Some people got really into it and spent hours
writing Karel programs to play tic-tac-toe, do long division, etc.  Ah
well, freshman nerds lack a certain "polish".]

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