]> Cies Breijs

cies AT kde DOT nl

Anne-Marie Mahfouf

annma AT kde DOT org

2004 Cies Breijs &FDLNotice; 2005-12-10 0.6 &kturtle; is an educational programming environment using the &logo; programming language. The unique quality of LOGO is that the programming commands are translated to the language of the 'programmer' so he/she can program in his/her native language. KDE kdeedu KTurtle education language native programming code &logo; instructions turtle &kturtle; is an educational programming environment using the &logo; programming language. The goal of &kturtle; is to make programming as easy and accessible as possible. This makes &kturtle; suitable for teaching kids the basics of math, geometry and... programming. The commands used to program are in the style of the &logo; programming language. The unique feature of the &logo; programming language is that the commands are often translated into the speaking language of the programmer. &kturtle; is named after the turtle that plays a central role in the programming environment. The user programs the turtle, using the &logo; commands, to draw a picture on the canvas. The first version &logo; programming language was created by Seymour Papert of MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1967 as an offshoot of the LISP programming language. From then many versions of &logo; have been released. By 1980 &logo; was gaining momentum, with versions for MSX, Commodore, Atari, Apple II and IBM PC systems. These versions were mainly for educational purposes. LCSI released &Mac;&logo; in 1985 as a tool for professional programmers, but it never caught on. MIT is still maintaining a site on &logo; which can be found on http://el.media.mit.edu/logo- foundation/. Today there are several versions of &logo; around which can easily be found on MIT's &logo; site and by a simple Google search. This version of &logo; (&kturtle;) is only focused on the educational qualities of the programming language and will not try to suit professional programmers' needs. &kturtle; has some nice features that make starting to program a breeze. See here some of the highlights of &kturtle; feature set: An integrated &logo; interpreter (no extra dependencies) that uses &XML; files for the command translations, supports user defined functions and dynamic type switching. The execution can be slown down, paused or stopped at any time. A powerful editor for the &logo; commands with intuitive syntax highlighting, line numbering and more. The canvas can be saved as an image or printed. The canvas has a wrapping mode (which is on by default) so the turtle cannot get lost too easily. Context help for all &logo; commands: Just press F2. The &logo; commands are fully translatable (at the moment of writing Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Slovenian, Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin), Spanish and Swedish are in &kde;). An error dialog that links the error messages to the mistakes in the program. Simplified programming terminology. Full-screen mode. Many integrated, internationalized example &logo; programs make it easy to get started. &using-kturtle; &getting-started; &programming-reference; &glossary; &translator-guide; &kturtle; Program copyright 2003-2005 Cies Breijs cies AT kde DOT nl Contributors: Coding help, editor part: &Anne-Marie.Mahfouf; &Anne-Marie.Mahfouf.mail; Author of WSBASIC (http://wsbasic.sourceforge.net) which is the base for the interpreter of &kturtle;: Walter Schreppers Walter DOT Schreppers AT ua DOT ac DOT be German Data Files: Matthias Meßmer bmlmessmer AT web DOT de German Data Files: Burkhard Lück lueck AT hube-lueck DOT de Swedish Data Files: Stefan Asserhäll stefan DOT asserhal AT telia DOT com Slovenian Data Files: Jure Repinc jlp@holodeck1.com Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin) Data Files: Chusslove Illich caslav.ilic@gmx.net Italian Data Files: Pino Toscano toscano.pino@tiscali.it English GB Data Files: Andy Potter A.J.Potter@rhul.ac.uk Spanish Data Files: Rafael Beccar rafael.beccar@kdemail.net Brazilian Portuguese Data Files: Riverson Rios riverson@ccv.ufc.br Norwegian Nynorsk and Bokmål Data Files: Karl Ove Hufthammer karl@huftis.org Parser Cyrillic support: Albert Astals Cid astals11@terra.es Documentation copyright 2004 Cies Breijs cies AT kde DOT nl &Anne-Marie.Mahfouf; annma AT kde DOT org Some proofreading changes by &Philip.Rodrigues; &Philip.Rodrigues.mail; Updated translation how-to and some proofreading changes by Andrew Coles andrew_coles AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk &underFDL; &underGPL; &install.intro.documentation; &install.compile.documentation; &documentation.index;