I managed to install VS Code and the julia extension and am working through “think julia how to think like a computer scientist” am on page 36 where the turtle draws a line but when i execute the code no SVG page comes up displaying the line. Any ideas anyone ?

The package ThinkJulia.jl seems to have its last commit 2 years ago. I’m not sure whether they have any updates. If you want to draw pictures and visualize on your PC maybe you can go with Makie.jl or something else. According to my experience with Makie, the safest way to view a picture is to save…

I asked grok and it said to check the julia extension, found a path in there to store plots. julia>plots:Path which i set, then got errors so modified the code to this. using ThinkJulia function main() 🐢=Turtle() println("start") @svg begin pendown(🐢) forward(🐢,100) turn(🐢,-90) …

Agreed - it’s caused problems in the past and I don’t know how many were fixed. [image] Using ThinkJulia General Usage using ThinkJulia Info: Precompiling ThinkJulia [a7fb756-c18b-4c7f-87da-faca9ac81629] Info: Skipping recompilation since precompile(false). …

There are turtles here Turtle graphics · Luxor Documentation for Luxor. if you want. But there’s no instructions on how to use VS-Code or Jupyter to write Julia code. For that you’ll want an up to date introduction to Julia.

ok, thanks everyone. figure it just a bug, found the books now online so presume they discontinued the support. Will read through the book and then hopefully find some stuff not using .svg. Maybe will try the code in julia instead of using VS CODE Once again, thanks everyone for your time on this…

UPDATE I tried the code in the book just from the Julia prompt outside of VS Code and get an error message so the problem is obviously not VS Code.

UPDATE I have emailed Ben Lauwens about the bug, when i tried working through the book a few years ago it worked fine so presume it a new bug in the package. Will see what he says and if provides a fix will come and post it on here in case anyone else gets the problem in the future.

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cormullion October 28, 2025, 3:02pm 4

Agreed - it’s caused problems in the past and I don’t know how many were fixed.

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