NAME¶
gvrng - An interactive, introductory programming language.
SYNTAX¶
gvrng [world file | program file]
DESCRIPTION¶
Guido van Robot is a project developed by advanced high school students for use
by their peers as a learning tool and precursor to the further study of
programming with Python. It is a minimalistic programming language providing
just enough syntax to help students learn the concepts of sequencing,
conditional branching, looping and procedural abstraction. It's biggest
strength is that it permits this learning in an environment that combines the
thrill of problem-solving with instant visual feedback. In short, it is an
interactive, introductory programming language that is excellent for learning
the basic concepts of programming, applicable in any high-level language. Best
of all, it's a whole lot of fun, too!
At this point, you are probably asking yourself, "What is GvRng,
specifically?" The gist of it is that it is a robot represented by a
triangle on the screen that moves around in a world made up of streets and
avenues, walls and "beepers", which Guido can collect or set. His
actions are completely guided by a program written by the user.
FILES¶
/usr/bin/gvrng
/usr/lib/gvrng
/usr/share/doc/gvrng
AUTHORS¶
Stas Zytkiewicz - stasz@linux.isbeter.nl
Waseem Daher - wdaher@mit.edu
Steve Howell - showell@zipcon.net
SEE ALSO¶
http://gvrng.sourceforge.net