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From: holt@turing.toronto.edu (Ric Holt)
Subject: Re: Karel the Robot
Message-ID: <89May28.161910edt.4608@turing.toronto.edu>
Keywords: Wanted, Karel
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Date: Sun, 28 May 89 16:19:03 EDT

In article <915@psc90.UUCP> wjt@psc90.UUCP (Dr. William Taffe) writes:
>
>Does anyone know of a source for Karel the Robot for PC's?
>I'd appreciate an e-mail reply - many thanks.
>
>Bill Taffe
>Dept. of Computer Science
>Plymouth State College
>Plymouth, NH 03266
>(603) 536-5000 X2530
>WTAFFE@UNHH.bitnet


This is a bit of a red herring, but...
After studying Karel the Robot a bit, I got the feeling that the syntax was
pretty wordy and that Karel wasn't quite entertaining enough.  Sooooo....

I've written a game called Frogo (the fabulous frog) (any resemblance to
Logo the langorous turtle a pure coincidence :-)  )...

After you've played the game of Frogo, thru various levels, you end up
learning fundamental programming up thru the level of IF's and LOOP's.
The syntax of IF and LOOP is exactly that in the Turing programming language.

And... I'm looking for teachers of intro programming who'd be willing
to give me some feedback on Frogo.  Comes on a diskette.  Requires an MS-DOS
machine with 640k.  Send me email if this sounds interesting.

	Ric Holt (Prof)
	Dept of Computer Science
	Univ of Toronto
	10 King's College Rd.
	Toronto CANADA M5S 1A4
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