Activities/Turtle Art/Tutorials

Tutorials

Tony Forster's Blog

Tony Forster has written a number of blog posts about his experiments with Turtle Art:

• Using Python blocks in TurtleArt
• Turtle Lander
• Reprogramming Sugar
• Turtle random File:Turtle Blocks Activity random.ta (English & español)
• Turtle random V2 File:Turtle Blocks Activity randomv3.ta (English & español)
• Turtle Lissajous File:Turtle Art lisajous.ta (English & español)
• Turtle spring damper File:Turtle spring damper.ta (English & español)
• color and shade
• Turtle Art shapes
• Bouncing Turtle File:TurtleArt bounce.ta
• Turtle Pythagoras 1, 2
• Turtle graph File:Turtle graph.ta
• Turtle Pi File:Turtle pi.ta (English & español)
• Turtle Pi, another one File:Turtle Blocks pi another.ta (English & español)
• Turtle fractions File:TmpBtvKZX.ta (English & español)
• Turtle interactive multimedia
• capture numeric input File:Turtle Art getnumber.ta (English & español)
• Turtle eFile:Turtle e.ta (English & español)
• Turtle spirograph File:Turtle Art spirograph.ta (English & español)
• Mouse support File:Turtle Art Activity mouse.ta
• Turtle-sieve-of-Eratosthenes File:Turtle Art Activity eratos.ta (English & español)
• Turtle sliderule
• Turtle Diophantine File:Turtle Blocks Activity Diophantine.ta, see also (English & español)
• Turtle Paint File:Turtle Blocks Activity paint.doc
• Turtle Music Keyboard File:Turtle Art Activity keyboard.doc (English & español)
• Text to speech
• Talking clock File:Talking clock.ta
• Pie chart File:Turtle Art Activity pie chart.ta
• Singing turtle
• screen broadcast
• Maths, flip and rotate File:Flipandrotate.ta
• Maths, fractions and decimals File:Turtle Art Activity baloon0-1.ta Multiplication <100 File:Baloon100.ta Counting File:Count1-9.ta
• A simple die or spinner for probability File:Turtle Art Activity spinner.ta
• Division drill File:Turtle Art Activity division drill.ta
• Turtle calculus
• Turtle serial USB

An bringing it all together, the Turtle Art Oscilloscope.

Tony has also used the programmable block to do file IO.

Video Tutorials

I know there are a few but they are not categorized on this page... we'll make that happen soon. Help would be appreciated.

• introductory videos here on Turtle Art
• To Square—a tutorial by the Summer Spot youths at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School
• A basic tutorial.
• a video of the portfolio basics
• Get your hot cold Turtle Art Video here!
• Name that State!
• A Shapes and Colors Game