Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!stormy.atmos.washington.edu!jeff From: jeff@stormy.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff Bowden) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Karel the Robot Message-ID:Date: 19 Sep 88 00:47:21 GMT References: <856@yunexus.UUCP> <29753@bbn.COM> <336@flatline.UUCP> Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks Lines: 28 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.