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ToonTalk Equivalents

ToonTalk provides animated concrete representations of typical textual programming commands and constructs.

Computational Abstraction

ToonTalk Concretization

computation

city

actor

process

concurrent object

house

method

clause

robot

guard

method preconditions

contents of thought bubble

method actions

body

actions taught to a robot

message

array

vector

box

comparison test

set of scales

process spawning

loaded truck

process termination

bomb

constants

numbers, text, pictures, etc.

  

channel transmit capability

message sending

bird

channel receive capability

message receiving

nest

persistent storage

file

notebook

constants

numbers, text, pictures, etc.

  

channel transmit capability

message sending

bird

channel receive capability

message receiving

nest

persistent storage

file

notebook

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