[MWForum] Why not make source code available?

[Jerry Balzano]

Hi -

If one of the main purposes of MathCats (not to mention Logo itself) is to
encourage learning by exploration, then why not make the "source code",
i.e. the original ".mw2" projects, that one can play with on the MathCats
pages, available for download?  I think the fact that MathCats makes all
these projects available to us is great, but I found myself frustrated by
the fact that I couldn't see "how the authors did it".  Most of us, I would
hope, who are using MW, want to go past "gee whiz", but even those of us
who are reasonably accomplished at programming in Logo are not going to be
able to figure out the techniques employed in these projects just by
looking at them.

Thanks for listening -- what do others think?

Jerry Balzano
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Dr. Gerald J. Balzano
Teacher Education Program
Dept of Music
Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition
Cognitive Science Program
UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
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