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| <noinclude>[[Category:Activities|Turtle Confusion]]</noinclude>
| | ==Turtle Confusion== |
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| [[File:Turtle-a.png|75px]] [[File:Turtle-b.png|75px]]
| | Read at https://help.sugarlabs.org/turtle_confusion.html |
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| == What is Turtle Confusion ==
| | The source file has been moved to [https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/blob/master/source/turtle_confusion.rst GitHub] |
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| Turtle Confusion presents 40 shape challenges to the learner that must be completed using basic Logo-blocks. The challenges are based on Barry Newell's 1988 book, ''Turtle Confusion: Logo Puzzles and Riddles''. Gary Stager has put a scan of Barry Newell's original book on line [http://constructingmodernknowledge.com/tcbook.pdf here] (with permission of the author).
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| Turtle Confusion is a fork of [[Activities/Turtle Art|Turtle Blocks]] that presents [[Activities/Turtle Art#Challenges|40 shape challenges]] to be programmed by moving the Logo turtle.
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| <gallery>
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| File:TurtleConfusion.png
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| File:TurtleConfusion-5.png
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| File:TurtleConfusion-40.png
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| </gallery>
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| Additional features:
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| * You can import challenges from the Sugar Journal (save them as an image file)
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| * You can save your results as: (1) a Turtle Art program; (2) a UCB Logo project; or (3) a PNG image
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| * You can overlay Cartesian and polar coordinate grids
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| * Additional blocks can be added through the Turtle Blocks plugin mechanism
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| === Where to get Turtle Confusion ===
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| http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4450
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| === How to play Turtle Confusion ===
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| [[File:Confusion-toolbar.png]]
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| # Select a challenge from the Combo Box (Shown above: 'confusion 40').
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| # Use blocks from the various palettes to instruct the Logo turtle to replicate the pattern.
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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.
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| The shape challenges are loaded from the Combo Box on the Project (Palette) toolbar. When you select a shape, it will be loaded onto the canvas. When you use the Erase button, the current shape is reloaded.
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| 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.
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| The Export palette includes save as Logo; save as image; and save as Turtle Art.
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| === What are the challenges? ===
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| The challenges are problems of symmetry and geometry which typically can be solved by using a combination of rotations and repeat blocks.
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| File:Challenge-1.svg|Challenge 1
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| File:Challenge-5.svg|Challenge 5
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| File:Challenge-18.svg|Challenge 18
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| File:Challenge-40.svg|Challenge 40
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| </gallery>
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| [[File:Challenges-chart.png]]
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| == Reporting problems ==
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| Please file bugs at [https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/newticket?component=TurtleConfusion].
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| To list all open tickets of TurtleConfusion, see [https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=TurtleConfusion].
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| == Credits ==
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| * Walter Bender wrote and maintains the code.
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| * Barry Newell is the creator of the 40 shape puzzles.
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| * Brian Silverman is the first author of Turtle Art.
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