[school-discuss] ToonTalk going open source

[Yishay Mor <yishaym@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have used ToonTalk as a programming language with 10-15 year olds, and I know of people who have used it in kindergartens. ToonTalk is great fun (once you get into the hang of it) and is also very satesfing from an educators perspective: literally within hours of initial encounter, kids with no privios programming experience can produce meanigfull code.

ToonTalk's looks are deceptive. It gives the impression of a pre-school video game, but under the cover it is a concurent logical programming language, as powerful as any. 

Today Ken Kahn, toontalk's creator and owner, has released its code under a new BSD license. I think this is a wonderful opportunity for the community. Unfortunatly, the current code base is configured for Microsoft Visual Studio, and compiles to a windows execuatble. But I'm sure someone will change that soon enough :) While I don't think Ken intends to lead any porting effort, he's very approachable and always happy to help.

See:
http://toontalk.com/
http://code.google.com/p/toontalk/

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ken Kahn <toontalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2009/7/30
Subject: [ToonTalk] ToonTalk source code is now available
To: ToonTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

Dear ToonTalkers,

I uploaded the ToonTalk source files to Google Code:

http://code.google.com/p/toontalk/source/browse/

While I spent some effort deleting extraneous and obsolete files there is probably lots left. The code itself is the result of 15 years of development so it varies in quality, readability, and documentation.

If anyone wants to take the code further (e.g. maybe make a web-based version) I'll be glad to advise and put more work into cleaning up the code. If a project to make a web-based ToonTalk were to be funded I'd be more than happy to participate.

Best,

-ken

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