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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
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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.
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