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Jim Hurley wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> I know that RunRev is looking
eventually to expand its market in education.<br>
When it does, I think it will be helpful to include examples of
how Transcript<br>
and Turtle Graphics might be employed by students as problem
solving tools.</blockquote>
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Very glad to see you're still workingon Turtle Graohics in Rev.
Has the<br>
addition of paint tools to the Mac and Win engines resolved most of
your<br>
earlier issues? Will you be releasing this when you're done?<br>
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Richard,<br>
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Actually, TG in Revolution is pretty much a finished product. The
biggest problem I was having was drawing speed. The real breakthrough
came when Scott Rossi suggested using the pencil tool rather than the
line tool. Remarkably, the pencil is nearly 6 times as fast as the
line tool. I have no idea why.<br>
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<div>I have a demo stack which I could post to RunRev's
Educator's web page as soon as it becomes operational. I assume
that is where this material should go. In this demo stack there are
examples of:</div>
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<li>Planetary motion,
<li>Voyager's slingshot motion around Jupiter,
<li>Kepler's laws,
<li>Physics of the rainbow,
<li>Predator-prey theory and the incest taboo in biology,
<li>Illustration of a few geometrical theorems, and, just for fun,
<li>Some examples of recursive construction of fractals..</ul>
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<div>Again, the intention is not to dazzle students with these
programs, but to illustrate to teachers the potential for Transcript
and TG to be used in a high school science/programming course,
allowing the *students* to develop these programs for
themselves.</div>
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<div>P.S. I noticed a lot of garbage following my last posting. I hope
this doesn't happen again. If it does, somebody let me know where it
is coming from and how I might avoid it.</div>
<div>--<br>
Jim Hurley</div>
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