<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br>My name is Marion Zepf and I am interested in the project 'Python export functionality for Turtle Blocks'. Â Python is my favorite programming language and I often teach programming or other computer skills to my friends and family. Â I think it is very important to teach programming to children because it is a very important skill in today's world. Â Children are also very keen on playing around with the programming language, which is very important for learning new features of it. Â This is why I would like to make the step from block-based programming to writing code easier for them.<div>
<br></div><div style>My Background</div></div><div style>I am a student of computational linguistics in my 6th semester. Â I taught myself Python programming before I went to university. Â So, I have three years of experience in writing Python programs of various kinds - from simple command line utilities to GUI applications (using the pygame and tkinter libraries) and code generators for Java code. Â I also have strong competence in the object oriented programming paradigm. Â I am new to Berkeley Logo, but I learn quickly, so I expect to acquire good Logo skills in a few days.</div>
<div style>This will be my first contribution to the open source community. Â However, I am familiar with commonly used frameworks and tools like version control software (svn, git), Eclipse IDE, and autotools.</div><div style>
I have made myself familiar with the TurtleArt Activity in Sugar On A Stick as well as in the Debian package 'turtleart'.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Before I start writing my project proposal, I have a few questions about this project:</div>
<div style>(1) Which git repositories/ branches should I clone? Â I have found a list of repositories on</div><div style><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Source_Code">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Source_Code</a><br>
</div><div style>but I am not sure which ones I need and how to fit them together.</div><div style>(2) I understand that TurtleArt is written in Python, but the code that users generate by putting together the blocks is in a different, internal language. Â Is there documentation available for the syntax and semantics of this language?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Thank you.</div><div style>Marion</div></div>