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From: jeff@stormy.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff Bowden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Karel the Robot
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Date: 19 Sep 88 00:47:21 GMT
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In-reply-to: erict@flatline.UUCP's message of 18 Sep 88 20:50:50 GMT

In article <336@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:

>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.


I believe the author to this book is Richard E. Pattis, a C Sci professor
at this school (University of Washington).   hmmm, let's see...

% finger pattis@june.cs.washington.edu
[june.cs.washington.edu] 
Login name: pattis    			In real life: Richard Pattis
Directory: /u2/pattis               	Shell: /bin/csh
Group: faculty

Yep, he's here.