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Turtle Flags

Read at https://help.sugarlabs.org/turtleflags.html

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-<noinclude>[[Category:Activities|Turtle Flags]]</noinclude>
+== Turtle Flags ==
-[[File:Turtle-Flags.png|75px]]
+Read at https://help.sugarlabs.org/turtleflags.html
-== What is Turtle Flags ==
+The source file has been moved to [https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/blob/master/source/turtleflags.rst GitHub]
-Turtle Flags presents more than 200 challenges to the learner that must be completed using basic Logo-blocks. The challenges are based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_sovereign-state_flags national flags].
-Turtle Flags is a fork of [[Activities/Turtle Confusion]] that presents [[Activities/Turtle Art#Challenges|40 shape challenges]] to be programmed by moving the Logo turtle.
-[[File:TurtleFlags-1.png|300px]] [[File:TurtleFlags-2.png|300px]]
-On the left, the Argentine flag; on the right, a Turtle Art reproduction
-Additional features:
-* You can import challenges from the Sugar Journal (save them as an image file)
-* You can save your results as: (1) a Turtle Art program; (2) a UCB Logo project; or (3) a PNG image
-* You can overlay Cartesian and polar coordinate grids
-* Additional blocks can be added through the Turtle Blocks plugin mechanism
-=== Where to get Turtle Flags ===
-http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4682
-=== How to play Turtle Flags ===
-[[File:TurtleFlags-toolbar.png]]
-# Click on the flag button on the palette toolbar.
-# Select a flag from the flag thumbnail-view (Shown below).
-# Use blocks from the various palettes to instruct the Logo turtle to replicate the flag.
-[[File:Turtle-Flags-iconview.png|300px]]
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-Please refer to the [[Activities/Turtle Art]] pages for basic instructions on how to use the block interface and the details of various toolbars.
-The flag challenges are loaded from the Combo Box on the Project (Palette) toolbar. When you select a flag, it will be loaded onto the canvas. When you use the Erase button, the current flag is reloaded.
-The available blocks are small subset of the Turtle Block blocks: the basic turtle blocks; a reduced palette of pen and color blocks; some basic arithmetic operators; the repeat block; and the action and box blocks.
-The Export palette includes save as Logo; save as image; and save as Turtle Art.
-=== What are the challenges? ===
-The 200+ flag challenges are problems of symmetry and geometry which typically can be solved by using a combination of fill and repeat blocks.
-<gallery>
-File:Argentina.png|Argentina
-File:UnitedStates.png|United States
-File:Thailand.png|Thailand
-File:Australia.png|Australia
-File:Rwanda.png|Rwnada
-File:Peru.png|Peru
-</gallery>
-[[File:TA-argentina.svg|200px]]
-An example of a Turtle Art flag (Argentina)
-== Reporting problems ==
-Please file bugs at [https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/newticket?component=TurtleArt].
-To list all open tickets of Turtle Flags, see [https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=TurtleArt].
-== Credits ==
-* Walter Bender wrote and maintains the code.
-* Brian Silverman is the first author of Turtle Art.
-== Extra Credit ==
-http://www.visualnews.com/2013/08/27/national-flags-created-foods-country-commonly-associated
-== Just for fun ==
-[http://i.imgur.com/ZTw1q74.jpg Flag Map]

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