Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!flatline!erict From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Karel the Robot Summary: Also looking for. Message-ID: <336@flatline.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 88 20:50:50 GMT References: <856@yunexus.UUCP> <29753@bbn.COM> Organization: one bitchin' 3b1 in Tx.Houston.the-Montrose Lines: 18 In article <29753@bbn.COM>, mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) writes: | From article <856@yunexus.UUCP>, by peter@yunexus.UUCP (Peter Roosen-Runge): | > I am looking for the titles and authors of two introductory programming | > texts, written, I believe, in the early 80s, both of which had the theme | > of developing programs to control a simple "robot". | | I don't remember the author of the Karel book. But I do remember the | two bizarre guys in my freshman dorm at CMU who were so taken with Karel | that they spent a month making three right turns when they wanted to | make a left down a hallway:-) I'm looking for this as well. A cosc prof of mine suggested the book to anyone interested in programming, whatever their level of education. -- Skate Unix or die, boogie boy.... J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007 ..!bellcore!tness1!/