Writing Crates for Complete Beginners - A Tour of Turtle
summary
Turtle is a Rust graphics crate built to teach complete beginners, implemented with a GUI window and turtle that draws as it moves; initial thread-based architecture fails on macOS so it switches to a process-based event loop and preserves the same public API, a rewrite that takes about 59 commits. Tests avoid spawning windows via a test feature disables windows, and helpful compile-time guidance uses the compile_error macro. The crate includes many examples, an examples directory, and plans for WASM, async, and multiple turtles.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:58Outline
- 1:35Resources
- 2:07Why Turtle
- 3:01What is Turtle
- 4:10Teaching with Turtle
- 4:57History of Turtle
- 5:27Python Implementation
- 7:45Event Loops
- 11:16Turtle on Mac
- 12:13Two Main Threads
- 15:03Whats Next
- 16:00Contributing Guide
- 16:22Future of Turtle
- 16:51Help
- 18:40Running Cargo Tests
- 20:29Good Documentation
- 21:46Turtle Documentation
- 23:36Examples
- 24:23Documentation
- 24:52Crate Examples
- 25:26Crate Guides
- 26:24Rust API Guidelines
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