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


(Additional galleries can be found at http://turtleartsite.appspot.com and http://turtleart.org)
<gallery>
File:TA-sample1.png
File:TA-sample2.png
File:TA-sample3.png
File:TA-sample4.png
File:TA-sample5.png
File:TA-sample6.png
</gallery>
===maths===
<gallery>
File:TAclock1.png|A clock activity
File:TAclock2.png
File:TAclock3.png
File:TAclock4.png
File:TAgeometry.png|Calculating the hypotenuse and approximating the angle of a right triangle
File:TAgeometry1.png|Stepping through the program is a nice way to visualize the process of approximation
File:TAgeometry2.png|The final result of the approximation.
File:Sine.png|And on-the-fly function definitions
File:US currency.png|Currency (using plugin)
</gallery>
Tony Forster describes his "adventures" with on-the-fly definitions to create an [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fTmGyLerUL4/SY0URR-P7TI/AAAAAAAAAN4/XySQUPHmiME/s1600-h/clockface.jpg analog clock] in [http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2009/02/using-insert-function-block-in.html his blog.]
Try any of the [http://docs.python.org/library/time.html time] or [http://docs.python.org/library/math.html math] library functions, e.g.,
localtime().tm_min
sin(x) + sin(pi/2)
===presentations===
<gallery>
File:Portfolio14.png
File:Portfolio13.png
</gallery>
===games===
Turtle Art can be used to write games, such as a simple falling block game:
<gallery>
File:WeGotGame.png
File:Hot-cold.png
File:Yes-no.png
File:State-game.png
File:Boston-game.png
File:Continent-game.png
File:Gardner-school.png
File:Shapes-game.png
</gallery>
===sensors===
Turtle Art supports sensor input:
<gallery>
File:Bike odometer.png|Using a Hall-effect sensor, you can build a bike odometer in Turtle Art
</gallery>
More ideas for sensors [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors]]
[[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Uso_de_TortugaArte_Sensores]]
===student work===
Students from Caacupé have been sending me examples of their work:
<gallery>
File:Mi bici.png|Eduado Fabian Ayala Vargas
File:TmpNW2JGh.png|Johana Soeli Aquino
File:Circulo colores.png|Ivan Silva
File:Tmp4FAsHi.png|Rodrigo Nicolas Valdéz Bobadilla
File:Captura pantalla de Actividad TortugArte.png|Juan Pablo Espinola Carballo
File:Flora.png|Miguela
</gallery>
===Just for fun===
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:Galapagos.png|my elder cousin
File:TA-appspot.png|http://turtleartsite.appspot.com
File:Hot-cold.png|[http://www.dailymotion.com/user/sugarlabs/video/x9dsjf_hotcold-game_creation (video)]
File:TA-org.png|http://turtleart.org
File:State-game.png|[http://www.dailymotion.com/user/sugarlabs/video/x9xz9o_stategame_tech (video)]
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? A: Use chr().
File:Explicit_approach.png
File:Approximation_approach.png
File:100_turtles.png
File:RFID.png
File:TurtleTrees.png
</gallery>
</gallery>


=== Recent features ===
{{:Activities/Turtle Art/Gallery}}
 
<gallery>
File:Coordinates.png|Cartesian and polar coordinate grids
File:Collapsible.png|Collapsible stack
File:Collapsed.png|Collapsed stack
File:Python-expandable.png|Python function with one, two, or three variables
File:Bullets-two.png|Expandable bullet list (two bullets)
File:Bullets-four.png|Expandable bullet list (four bullets)
File:Large-blocks.png|Enlarged blocks
File:Small-blocks.png|Shrunken blocks
File:100Turtles.png|100 Turtles
File:TA-savesvg.svg|SVG output using the save SVG block
File:TA-multivariable.png|Multi-variable Python blocks
File:TAMaze.png|Turtle 'sees'
</gallery>