Logo (Turtle) Programming

  • Duration: 15 Weekly 60-min. Discussions
  • Schedule: Forthcoming
  • Price: $400

Objective

To master the fundamentals of the UC Berkeley Logo programming language, initially by directing the “turtle” to draw geometric figures on the screen and then by instructing the “turtle” to respond to user input, such as changing the color, shape, or dimensions of the drawings. (The Logo language was developed to teach students to think logically and to solve problems creatively. This course thereby supplements a broad liberal arts education, while also providing an entry experience in computer programming that for some students may foster interest in pursuing a career as a software engineer. No prior experience is necessary.)

Outline

  1. Turtle Motion I: forward, back, left, right, home, savepict, loadpict, epspict
  2. Control Structures I: run, runresult, repeat, forever, repcount, for
  3. Pen and Background Control: pendown, penup, penpaint, penerase, penreverse, setpencolor, setpalette, setpensize, setpenpattern, setpen, setbackground
  4. Turtle Motion II: setpos, setxy, setx, sety, setheading, arc
  5. Turtle Motion Queries: pos, xcor, ycor, heading, towards, scrunch
  6. Numeric Operators I: sum, difference, minus, product, quotient, remainder, modulo, int, round
  7. Logical Operators: and, or, not, if, ifelse, do.while, while, do.until, until, case
  8. Control Structures II: test, iftrue, iffalse, stop, pause, continue, wait, bye, goto, tag
  9. Numeric Predicates: lessp, greaterp, lessequalp, greaterequal, random, rerandom
  10.  Turtle and Window Queries: shownp, screenmode, turtlemode, labelsize
  11. Pen Queries: pendownp, penmode, pencolor, palette, pensize, pen, background
  12. Numeric Operators II: sqrt, power, exp, log10, ln, sin, cos, arctan, iseq, rseq
  13. Mouse Queries: mousepos, clickpos, buttonp, button
  14. Turtle and Window Control I: showturtle, hideturtle, clean, clearscreen, wrap, window, fence
  15. Turtle and Window Control II: fill, filled, label, setlabelheight, textscreen, fullscreen, splitscreen, setscrunch, refresh, norefresh

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