[Squeakland] Question about Powerful Ideas Project 5
Mark Engelberg
mark.engelberg at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 10:14:26 PST 2005
Cool. That's very elegant. I don't know why I didn't think of it myself.
--Mark
On 10/30/05, Alan Kay <alan.kay at squeakland.org> wrote:
> Hi Mark --
>
> Every Etoy object has a pen (they are all "turtles with costumes"). So
> instead of having an opaque plotting feature, we just have the kids use a
> small object (like an ellipse), put the pen down and write a ticking script
> like
>
> ellipse's x increase by 1
> ellipse's y <- <the value to be plotted>
>
> This is nice and simple, and also makes plotting understandable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> ---------
>
> At 05:34 PM 10/29/2005, Mark Engelberg wrote:
> >The project refers to making a line plot, but doesn't go into any
> >detail. Is there a mechanism for plotting or graphing data within
> >etoys, or are you supposed to construct a plot using some different
> >tool?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Mark
> >
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