Difference between revisions of "Activities/TurtleNutrition"

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What is Turtle Nutrition

Turtle Nutrition ...

Turtle Nutrition is a fork of Activities/Turtle Art that ...

Where to get Turtle Nutrition

http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/TurtleNutrition-202.xo

How to use Turtle Nutrition

Please refer to the Activities/Turtle Art pages for basic instructions on how to use the block interface and the details of various toolbars.

get calories: returns a number that corresponds to the number of calories in a food item
get protein: returns a number that corresponds to the amount of protein in a food item
get carbohydrates: returns a number that corresponds to the carbohydrates in a food item
calories eaten: the number of calories eaten
protein eaten: the amount of protein eaten
carbohydrates eaten: the amount of carbohydrates eaten
get fiber: returns a number that corresponds to the amount of fiber in a food item
get fat: returns a number that corresponds to the amount of fat in a food item
eat: consume a food item and add its nutritional content to the total amount eaten
fiber eaten: the amount of fiber eaten
fat eaten: the amount of fat eaten
digest meal: reset the nutritional content eaten to zero
get name: returns the name of a food item as a string

food blocks: various foods that can be used with the program. See below for instructions on how to modify the activity to add your own foods: apple, banana, orange, cake, cookie, bread, corn, potato, sweet potato, tomato

In the example below [1], the "get calories" block is used to extract the number of calories in several foods. Those data are then used in a bar chart.

Extending Turtle Nutrition

Reporting problems

Please file bugs at [2].

To list all open tickets of Turtle Flags, see [3].

Credits

Walter Bender wrote and maintains the code.
Brian Silverman is the first author of Turtle Art.

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 === How to use Turtle Nutrition ===
-[[File:TurtleNutrition-toolbar.png]]
+Please refer to the [[Activities/Turtle Art]] pages for basic instructions on how to use the block interface and the details of various toolbars.
-[[File:TurtleNutrition-food-toolbar.png]]
+[[File:TurtleNutrition-toolbar.png|800px]]
+;get calories: returns a number that corresponds to the number of calories in a food item
+;get protein: returns a number that corresponds to the amount of protein in a food item
+;get carbohydrates: returns a number that corresponds to the carbohydrates in a food item
+;calories eaten: the number of calories eaten
+;protein eaten: the amount of protein eaten
+;carbohydrates eaten: the amount of carbohydrates eaten
+;get fiber: returns a number that corresponds to the amount of fiber in a food item
+;get fat: returns a number that corresponds to the amount of fat in a food item
+;eat: consume a food item and add its nutritional content to the total amount eaten
+;fiber eaten: the amount of fiber eaten
+;fat eaten: the amount of fat eaten
+;digest meal: reset the nutritional content eaten to zero
+;get name: returns the name of a food item as a string
+[[File:TurtleNutrition-food-toolbar.png|800px]]
-Please refer to the [[Activities/Turtle Art]] pages for basic instructions on how to use the block interface and the details of various toolbars.
+;food blocks: various foods that can be used with the program. See below for instructions on how to modify the activity to add your own foods: apple, banana, orange, cake, cookie, bread, corn, potato, sweet potato, tomato
-In the example below [], the "get calories" block is used to extract the number of calories in several foods. Those data are then used in a bar chart.
+In the example below [https://github.com/walterbender/turtleart/blob/nutrition/samples/nutrition-calorie-chart.tb], the "get calories" block is used to extract the number of calories in several foods. Those data are then used in a bar chart.
 [[File:Turtle-Nutrition-calorie-chart.png|300px]]