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Play with Turtle Art to draw colorful art patterns using a turtle that accepts instructions for movement.

With visual programming blocks, you can snap together programs by compiling (combining) them in ways to create anything you can imagine.

A clock activity
Calculating the hypotenuse and approximating the angle of a right triangle
Stepping through the program is a nice way to visualize the process of approximation
The final result of the approximation.
And on-the-fly function definitions

Tony Forster describes his "adventures" with on-the-fly definitions to create an analog clock in his blog.

Try any of the time or math library functions, e.g.,

localtime().tm_min

sin(x) + sin(pi/2)

Turtle Art can be used to write games, such as a simple falling block game:

Turtle Art supports sensor input:

More ideas for sensors [[1]] [[2]]

Students from Caacupé have been sending me examples of their work:

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 File:Pie1.png
 File:Pie2.png|[http://5toescuela3.blogspot.com/2009/07/actividades-para-sugar.html Using Turtle Art for pie charts]
-File:Keyboard.png|Q: How do I cast keyboard input to a string? Looking at the source your are using ord() to fetch the input... is there a way to convert that back to string before showing it? ANS: Use chr(). See the example in the illustration.
+File:Keyboard.png|Q: How do I cast keyboard input to a string? A: Use chr().
 File:Explicit_approach.png
 File:Approximation_approach.png