On Saturday 05 April 2003 05:25 am, Stephane Ducasse wrote:

> Simply because I could not master it. I'm too programming-language
> oriented and I wanted to tell another story. eToy is event based
> and concurrent and I wanted to be sequential. All in all in the end
> is good because we will have multiple
> material for teachers. I still think that a good book on using eToy
> would be great and hope kim will have one soon. I hope to finish
> the first book before the summer.

If you're doing Karel, it should be pretty easy to do so in eToys. 
You'd supply scripts (or built-ins) for the basic 6 actions, and 
they'd write another script that calls those routines. No loops, of 
course, but they'd have conditionals. (And recursion).

The concurrency would be absent or hidden (for instance, you would 
probably need a constantly-running script on the beepers to tell the 
robot when it's on top of a beeper).

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