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Name: [022] André Roberge
Member: 36 months
Authored: 6 videos
Description: I'm a father of two wonderful children, a Theoretical Physicist by training, a University President by accident, and a hobbyist Python programmer. I created rur-ple and Crunchy (the latter with the collaboration of Johannes Woolard). To reach me: andre.roberge@gmail.com ...

[033] Introducing the RUR-PLE Learning Environment (1/2)

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11. Rajah Olaguer Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:03

Great teaching tool.

10. Stormwire Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:33

That Is amazing. This is the reason I want to learn programing so I can make fun programs like these for people. Thanks for sharing and great job!

9. anonymous Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:14

Nice work (as I've already said in email). The start slightly put me off - if you're listening to an English language video, the translation feature is a distraction, and "GUI" is a bit of jargon that programming newbies might not know. But great all the same!

8. anonymous Fri, 08 May 2009 16:57

This was an excellent video and I look forward to more of them...

Thanks,

Chris

7. MPach Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:00

Awesome! Thanks I will try it

6. anonymous Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:38

This is phenomenal! My older son is a week short of 9, and he was able to program Reeborg out of a maze on the second night he used RUR-PLE. I had no problem at all installing Python 2.5, wxPython, and RUR-PLE on WinXP. It just works. (Just unzip the RUR-PLE zip file, double-click on RUR-PLE, and it runs just fine.)

5. anonymous Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:34

HI, I like the idea but I cannot get it to work on WinXP with Python 2.5 and latest wxPython libraries .... any time I press a key I get an error :-(

4. Pat Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:54

I really want to try rur-ple but I don't know how to install it. I have python 2.5 and wxpython and I get nothing when I try the included webpage. a video on how to install it on windows machines and linux machines (I run both) would be great.

3. Bob Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:53

Nice but very unstable on Ubuntu. Uncountable freezes.

2. Horst JENS (2) Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:28

Bonjour André, I used RUR-PLE for teaching 10 year old kids today. The kids loved it !

Tom B Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:15

Amazing teaching tool! Well done!

Kudos and Thanks for André

Introduction to Crunchy

Great video about a great piece of software! I'll definitely give it a try.

Dan Marton 23 days ago

Introducing the RUR-PLE Learning Environment

Great teaching tool.

Rajah Olaguer 23 days ago

The quickest path to learning Python using Crunchy

good tutorial

anonymous 2 months ago

Introduction to Crunchy

Andre -- Great project! I'll be sharing Crunchy with Python users throughout New Zealand.

anonymous 2 months ago

Introduction to Crunchy

very good overview and demo

anonymous 5 months ago

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