<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br>My name is Marion Zepf and I am interested in the project 'Python export functionality for Turtle Blocks'. Python is my favorite programming language and I often teach programming or other computer skills to my friends and family. I think it is very important to teach programming to children because it is a very important skill in today's world. Children are also very keen on playing around with the programming language, which is very important for learning new features of it. 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. I taught myself Python programming before I went to university. 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. I also have strong competence in the object oriented programming paradigm. 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. 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? 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. 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>