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| − | <noinclude>[[Category:Activities|Turtle Flags]]</noinclude>
| + | == Turtle Flags == |
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| − | [[File:Turtle-Flags.png|75px]]
| + | Read at https://help.sugarlabs.org/turtleflags.html |
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| − | == What is Turtle Flags ==
| + | The source file has been moved to [https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/blob/master/source/turtleflags.rst GitHub] |
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| − | 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].
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| − | 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.
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| − | [[File:TurtleFlags-1.png|300px]] [[File:TurtleFlags-2.png|300px]]
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| − | On the left, the Argentine flag; on the right, a Turtle Art reproduction
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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 Flags ===
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| − | http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4682
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| − | === How to play Turtle Flags ===
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| − | [[File:TurtleFlags-toolbar.png]]
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| − | # Click on the flag button on the palette toolbar.
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| − | # Select a flag from the flag thumbnail-view (Shown below).
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| − | # Use blocks from the various palettes to instruct the Logo turtle to replicate the flag.
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| − | [[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.
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| − | 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.
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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 200+ flag challenges are problems of symmetry and geometry which typically can be solved by using a combination of fill and repeat blocks.
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| − | <gallery>
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| − | File:Argentina.png|Argentina
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| − | File:UnitedStates.png|United States
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| − | File:Thailand.png|Thailand
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| − | File:Australia.png|Australia
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| − | File:Rwanda.png|Rwnada
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| − | File:Peru.png|Peru
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| − | </gallery>
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| − | [[File:TA-argentina.svg|200px]]
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| − | An example of a Turtle Art flag (Argentina)
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| − | == Reporting problems ==
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| − | Please file bugs at [https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/newticket?component=TurtleArt].
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| − | To list all open tickets of Turtle Flags, see [https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=TurtleArt].
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| − | == Credits ==
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| − | * Walter Bender wrote and maintains the code.
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| − | * Brian Silverman is the first author of Turtle Art.
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| − | == Extra Credit ==
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| − | http://www.visualnews.com/2013/08/27/national-flags-created-foods-country-commonly-associated
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| − | == Just for fun ==
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| − | [http://i.imgur.com/ZTw1q74.jpg Flag Map]
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