[kde-edu]: KTurtle and Akademy

[Burkhard Lück]

Am Mittwoch 20 August 2008 00:36:13 schrieb Mauricio Piacentini:
> Burkhard Lück wrote:
> > Am Dienstag 12 August 2008 23:14:00 schrieb Mauricio Piacentini:
> >> Documentation improvements:
> >> =Documentation for math functions
> >> -Round function documentation
> >
> > please explain how it works.
> >
> > is it already in 4.1 or only in trunk?
>
> Both were already in 4.1. Round() is undocumented, and it rounds the
> number entered to the nearest integer. In the console, try:
>
> print round(10.8)
> forward 20
> print round(10.3)
> forward 20
>
> And you will see that it will print
> 11
> 10
>
> The math functions are listed in the "Can the Turtle do math?" page of
> the doc, but there are no explanation of what each one does. Niels
> mentioned he thinks it would be nice to have a small explanation for
> each. Currently the text is:
>
> "KTurtle has advanced mathematical features. It knows the number pi and
> trigonometrical functions like sin, cos, tan, arcsin, arccos, arctan and
> the functions sqrt and exp."
>
I know that sentence already, I have written it ;-)

> On the other hand, people that want to use these functions probably know
> what they are supposed to do, so if we are writing the docs for kids
> maybe a full description is not needed.
>
> You asked previously about the console: it is the lineedit widget
> available in the toolbar that you can use to enter a one line command
> and test it. It is available in 4.1 and trunk as well, but undocumented.
>
I will try to update the docs in trunk and backport to 4.1.

Thanks for your explanations.


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Burkhard Lück