Turing Student Edition/ Academic Edition

[Gilby101]

I am taking Turing at my school, at the school we use Turing 4.0.4, at home I have 4.0.5 (I think ) The one at my school is a lot more user friendly for Ex. when I type "var name : string." "var" would go bold, "name" would
go blue, and "string" would also go bold. The one at my house is different. All commands and text stay black and do not go bold (not that big of a deal). My main problem is various commands do not work on my Turing at home, like View.Update, Draw.ThickLine ect. Also the Turing reference doesn't have an index, so, I can't find the commands that replace them, or the right syntax for the commands (like View.Update) And some source codes from this forum work at school, but not at home, & vice versa. So my question is, is there anyway to get to a student edition while using 4.0.5, or at least get into the Turing reference in 4.0.5. Thanks in advance.

[Tony]

well I don't know where you pirated your copy of Turing from, but from the sound of it, it's not 4.0.5 Check the version number on the splash screen, or Help->About

[Clayton]

or if it isnt pirated (it isnt right?) then you might be using an older version (3.x or OOT?)

[Gilby101]

well, It was sent to me from a friend, who got it from his dad, who is a CPU engineer... So I doubt it's un genuine. But now that you mention OOT, it is... But when I sent it to my friends, they got the student edition. Wierd. Can anyone explain and or help please?

[Clayton]

well either way, OOT doesnt support syntax highlighting (which is like put and string being bolded) so either way you're sol on that

[Tony]

quick Google search for holtsoft "student edition" shows that there is no such thing.

I think a screen-shot is in order.

[Gilby101]

I can't get a screen, I don't know if it's officially called "Studen Edition." I just call it that because, that's the version I use at school, and when I mentioned this to my teacher, he said something about the one we are using in class, being used specifically for teaching programming. The "Student Edition" is Turing 4.0.4 I believe.

[Tony]

what your teacher was refering to is that Turing is designed and marketed as a programming language for learning. There is little use for it outside of highschool environment.

Bottom line is that there are no special editions of Turing. If your version is very different from the school's.. Then you probably have a much older version.

[Gilby101]

Then why is it, that when I sent my old Turing, to my friends, they got a new edition? I am gonna ask them to just send it to me again, and see what happens... That is wierd though!

[BenLi]

must be a detail that im missing, but don't ontario schools have the license to distribute Turing to students? I got Turing for $2 (the price of the cd it was on)

[Tony]

it's actually on the per-school basis. Not every highschool even has CS classes available, they could be teaching other languages.

Though you are right, often the school would have a distribution license and could legally give away a copy of Turing for nearly free.

[Michael]

we get it for free.... there's a link to the exe on my schools site
not sure if its legal to post it here

[ericfourfour]

Here you go.