Guido van Robot
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| Guido van Robot Next Generation (GvRng) Guido van Robot (GvR) | |
|---|---|
 GvRng 3.1 running a complex program on a complex map. | |
| Genres | Programming education |
| Developers | [1] |
| Code license | GPL[2] |
| Media license | GPL[2] |
| Latest release | GvRng: 4.1 Lessons: 0.4 |
| Release date | GvRng: 2009-01-09 |
| P. language | Python |
| Libraries | GTK (GvRng) wxPython (GvR) |
Guido van Robot is a programming language, an IDE and a tutorial designed as an introduction to the fundamentals of (Python) programming for beginners. It is licensed under the GNU GPL. The latest release is 4.1 (2009-01-09).
The program includes a tutorial, whose latest release is 0.4.
The program uses:
- A playfield called “world”, that is created or loaded as a list of locations of objects (walls and “beepers”) and the robot location and the direction it faces when a user program starts.
- A program, written or loaded by the user in a Python-like language that includes 5 instructions, 18 tests, conditional branching, iteration and new instruction definition.
History
It was started in 2001 by Steve Howell as “pyKarel”, a Python implementation of the educational programming language for Pascal by Richard E. Pattis called “Karel the Robot”. A team gathered, and rewritten the GUI in wxPython. Then it was renamed Guido van Robot, after the original program and Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python programming language.[3]
Later GvR was rewritten to use GTK+ and GTK sourceview, and renamed GvRng (Guido van Robot Next Generation).[4]
There is also a special GTK version for the OLPC XO.[5]
References
- ↑ GvR developers
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gvrng/current/copyright
- ↑ GvR history
- ↑ GvR download page
- ↑ http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=85427&package_id=235998 sourceforge download page
