Andre Roberge wrote: > In 1981, Richard Pattis wrote a delightful little book titled "Karel > the Robot, a Gentle Introduction to the Art of Programming." Pattis's > "Karel the Robot" was named after the author Karel Capek, who > popularized the word "robot" in his play "Rossum's Universal Robots". > Pattis's approach was to introduce a robot who could follow 5 basic > instructions and be taught to accomplish tasks of increasing > complexity. > > A few years ago, a first implementation of "Karel the Robot" in Python > was created and called PyKarel. A second, newer implementation is > called Guido van Robot (GvR for short), and is available at > gvr.sourceforge.net. Work is currently underway by the developpers of > GvR to produce a new-and-improved version. > > I have been working on my own (better ;-) version (sometimes > collaborating with the GvR folks) in order to learn Python. It is now > 90% finished. It is meant to be a complete environment to learn about > programming concepts, from simple sequences of instruction to OOP. > > Given the origin of Pattis's name (Rossum's Universal Robot) and the > name of Python's BDFL, I find it difficult to think of a better name > than Guido van Robot to name a programming environment in which one > uses Python to teach a robot new tricks! (Hat's off to Steve Howell > for this one). Yet, I want a "clever" name for my version. > > Any suggestions?
RUR? Perhaps http://jerz.setonhill.edu/resources/RUR/ might give you more ideas. FuManChu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
