Re: Need help finding graphics-oriented programming projects

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From: Gareth Rees
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 20:24

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Roy Smith <roy@popmail.med.nyu.edu> wrote:
> So, what I'm looking for are some topics in computer graphics which
> will grab this student's interest, but which are free of higher math,
> and of a scope which could reasonably be expected to be handled in the
> first few weeks of an intro programming course by a student with no
> prior programming experience.

The LOGO language is designed for precisely this kind of thing.  LOGO is
an interpreted Lisp-like language with "turtle graphics" drawing
primitives along the lines of

   FORWARD n    move forward n units in the current direction
   LTURN a      turn left through angle a
   RTURN a      turn right through angle a
   PEN UP       stop drawing
   PEN DOWN     start drawing

These primitives, plus arithmetic and control structures for iteration
and recursion, are plenty to start drawing complicated figures.

-- 
Gareth Rees

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