KTurtle

KTurtle is a development environment for Turtle scripts that allows the playful introduction to programming. The software is part of the KDE Education Project and is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Software

Turtle scripts are being removed similar to the Logo programming language and allows simple drawings and mathematical calculations. A special feature of Turtle scripts is that the instructions can be translated into the native language of the learner, ie it can read the source code and the commands in his native language and also program in his native language. This will help you get started. Agent settings can be changed the language.

Example Program

With this code, the turtle draws a rectangle.

Draw a rectangle   back   repeat 2 {     forward 60     Rotate Left 90     forward 140     Rotate Left 90   } Special

The software comes with various options to improve the control of program execution. Thus, the source text is about in the execution of a code example shown and it is highlighted in color, which line of code is currently being processed by the program. With version 0.8, the control options have been improved. The new " Inspector " also provides information about newly learned commands, as well as variables and their values ​​.

Confines

The KTurtle programming language and IDE are intended only for educational purposes, in which turtle graphics to be used. For other purposes KTurtle is not intended and not suitable.

Comparable programs

An important source of inspiration for KTurtle was the KDE Software KLogo Turtle Euclides Chuma, the visually has some similarities with KTurtle. The project, however, is asleep since about 2006.