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PythonTurtle

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An educational environment for learning Python, suitable for beginners and children. Inspired by LOGO.

Homepage: http://pythonturtle.org

An Appealing Environment to Learn Python

PythonTurtle strives to provide the lowest-threshold way to learn Python. Students command an interactive Python shell (similar to the IDLE development environment) and use Python functions to move a turtle displayed on the screen.

An illustrated help screen introduces the student to the basics of Python programming while demonstrating how to move the turtle. Simplicity and a colorful visual appearance makes the learning environment more appealing to students.

Screen shot

Installation

Installers for Microsoft Windows and macOS are available from pythonturtle.org and GitHub.

Ubuntu Linux:

sudo apt-get install -y python3-wxgtk4.0

Fedora:

python3 -m pip install wxpython

On any GNU/Linux distribution: (after installing prerequisites from above)

python3 -m pip install --user PythonTurtle
PythonTurtle

If you're into automation:

Ansible tasks for setting up PythonTurtle including a desktop shortcut for GNOME.

Troubleshooting

ImportError: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

See https://askubuntu.com/a/978338/14650

Compatibility

Tested with Python version 3.6 and wxPython version 4.0.1. Reported to run on Windows, macOS, Ubuntu Linux, and Fedora.

Development

git clone https://github.com/PythonTurtle/PythonTurtle.git
cd PythonTurtle
python3 -m pythonturtle

Build application bundles like this:

python3 setup.py clean bundle

Please open a pull request for contributions or bug fixes. If you can, please also add tests.

Citing PythonTurtle

If you refer to PythonTurtle in academic work, please use this citation format:

@misc{rachum2009pythonturtle,
    author={Rachum, Ram and Bittner, Peter and others},
    title={PythonTurtle: A learning environment for Python suited for beginners and children, inspired by Logo},
    month={may},
    year={2009},
    publisher={GitHub},
    doi={10.5281/zenodo.10465283},
    url={https://github.com/PythonTurtle/PythonTurtle/}
}

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.