Activities/Turtle Art

What is Turtle Blocks (AKA Turtle Art)
Turtle Blocks is an activity with a Logo-inspired graphical "turtle" that draws colorful art based on snap-together visual programming elements. Its "low floor" provides an easy entry point for beginners. It also has "high ceiling" programming features which will challenge the more adventurous student.

Where to get Turtle Blocks
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4027

Note: There are two inter-compatible programs: Turtle Art and Turtle Blocks. Turtle Art, which closely parallels the Java version of Turtle Art maintained by Brian Silverman, offers a small subset of the functionality of Turtle Blocks. Sugar users probably want to use Turtle Blocks rather than Turtle Art. (Also see Turtle Confusion, a collection of programming challenges designed by Barry Newell; as well as the Activities/TurtleFlags, Activities/Tortuga de Mexico and Activities/Amazonas Tortuga variants.)

Debian (and Ubuntu) users can install Turtle Blocks from a repository maintained by Alan Aguiar (https://launchpad.net/~alanjas/+archive/turtleblocks):
 * 1) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alanjas/turtleblocks
 * 2) sudo apt-get update
 * 3) sudo apt-get install turtleblocks

Fedora users can do:
 * 1) sudo yum install turtleblocks
 * 2) sudo yum install sugar-turtleart

Credits

 * Walter Bender and Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés maintain the code (with some occasional help from Simon Schampijer)
 * Especially helpful feedback from Tony Forster, Guzmán Trinidad, and Bill Kerr
 * Matthew Gallagher works on packaging and wrote the project-upload code
 * Brian Silverman is the first author of Turtle Art