05-12-2010
Learning Curve
A steep learning curve means that more information can be learned over a short time. Most people believe, mistakenly, that a steep learning curve is bad. This probably comes from believing they have to climb it rather than it being a graph of knowledge vs time.
Perl does not have a steep learning curve, i.e. It will take you longer to learn than Bash. Perl has more features, five ways to solve any problem, and CPAN.org which has a module for almost anything you can think of.
Perl is well worth learning as it is a very powerful and flexible language. This is in spite of its NON-steep learning curve.
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gvrng(1) gvrng(1)
NAME
gvrng - An interactive, introductory programming language.
SYNTAX
gvrng [world file | program file]
DESCRIPTION
Guido van Robot is a project developed by advanced high school students for use by their peers as a learning tool and precursor to the fur-
ther study of programming with Python. It is a minimalistic programming language providing just enough syntax to help students learn the
concepts of sequencing, conditional branching, looping and procedural abstraction. It's biggest strength is that it permits this learning
in an environment that combines the thrill of problem-solving with instant visual feedback. In short, it is an interactive, introductory
programming language that is excellent for learning the basic concepts of programming, applicable in any high-level language. Best of all,
it's a whole lot of fun, too!
At this point, you are probably asking yourself, "What is GvRng, specifically?" The gist of it is that it is a robot represented by a tri-
angle on the screen that moves around in a world made up of streets and avenues, walls and "beepers", which Guido can collect or set. His
actions are completely guided by a program written by the user.
FILES
/usr/bin/gvrng
/usr/lib/gvrng
/usr/share/doc/gvrng
AUTHORS
Stas Zytkiewicz - stasz@linux.isbeter.nl
Waseem Daher - wdaher@mit.edu
Steve Howell - showell@zipcon.net
SEE ALSO
http://gvrng.sourceforge.net
Stas Zytkiewicz 1.0 09/13/2004 gvrng(1)