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Start by clicking on (or dragging) blocks from the Turtle palette. Use multiple blocks to create drawings; as the turtle moves under your control, colorful lines are drawn. | Start by clicking on (or dragging) blocks from the Turtle palette. Use multiple blocks to create drawings; as the turtle moves under your control, colorful lines are drawn. | ||
| − | You add blocks to your program by clicking on or dragging them from the palette to the main area. You can delete a block by dragging it back onto the palette. Click anywhere on a "stack" of blocks to start executing that stack or by clicking in the Rabbit (fast) | + | You add blocks to your program by clicking on or dragging them from the palette to the main area. You can delete a block by dragging it back onto the palette. Click anywhere on a "stack" of blocks to start executing that stack or by clicking in the Rabbit (fast) , Turtle (slow) or Bug (debug) buttons [[File:Rabbitturtle.jpg]] on the Project Toolbar. |
| + | ===The basics=== | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:TA-basics.png|basic turtle graphics: 'forward', 'back', 'arc', and 'right' blocks | File:TA-basics.png|basic turtle graphics: 'forward', 'back', 'arc', and 'right' blocks | ||
Revision as of 20:26, 28 February 2011
Getting Started
Start by clicking on (or dragging) blocks from the Turtle palette. Use multiple blocks to create drawings; as the turtle moves under your control, colorful lines are drawn.
You add blocks to your program by clicking on or dragging them from the palette to the main area. You can delete a block by dragging it back onto the palette. Click anywhere on a "stack" of blocks to start executing that stack or by clicking in the Rabbit (fast) , Turtle (slow) or Bug (debug) buttons 
on the Project Toolbar.
The basics
basic turtle graphics: 'forward', 'back', 'arc', and 'right' blocks
'show' block used for text
multimedia: 'show' block used for image (movies, audio)
pen attributes: 'set pen color' block
'set pen size' block
logical operations: 'if' block
named variables:'store in' block
