Homepage: http://pythonturtle.org A Windows installer is available from there.

PythonTurtle strives to provide the lowest-threshold way to learn Python. Students command an interactive Python shell (similar to the IDLE development environment) and use Python functions to move a turtle displayed on the screen. An illustrated help screen introduces the student to the basics of Python programming while demonstrating how to move the turtle.

Tested with Python 2.6 and wxPython 2.8.10.1. Currently tested only on Windows and Ubuntu.

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

Building

On Windows

You must have installed:

• Python
• wxPython
• Distutils-extras
• py2exe
• Microsoft VC redistributable DLLs (say thanks to Billy for this hell) on c:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/VC/redist/x86/Microsoft.VC90.CRT or c:\Python27\vcruntime. Try get it here

Get PythonTurtle source code and in it's directory run: python setup.py py2exe

You get .exe and many files in ./dist directory

Building installer for Windows

• Install InstallShield
• Open pythonturtle.ism
• Build project

On Linux

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-distutils-extra python-stdeb 
git clone git@github.com:darvin/PythonTurtle.git
cd PythonTurtle
python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb

You will have .deb package in deb_dist directory

RPM-based distros

python setup.py bdist_rpm

You will have .rpm packages in dist directory

On Mac OS X

• Install XCode

• Install macports

• Then:

  curl -O http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py sudo python ez_setup.py -U setuptools sudo easy_install -U py2app sudo easy_install http://launchpad.net/python-distutils-extra/trunk/2.22/+download/python-distutils-extra-2.22.tar.gz sudo port install py-psyco

• Get the code of PythonTurtle

• In code directory, run:

python setup.py py2app

Installing

On Windows

• to be done

On Linux

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo dpkg -i pythonturtle-xxx.deb