Simple Turtle is an open
framework application created in Imagine Logo to allow
younger children to become familiar with controlling
a turtle interactivity and begin to build procedures.
The procedures are stored
as visual 'stamps' with a picture of the behaviour of
each stamp in miniature on its front. Up to 12 stamps
can be created, and sets of stamps can be saved and
loaded. Using the extra stamp designer, you can quickly
create interesting compositions using your turtle stamps...
The Simple Turtle
start up screen:
The Simple Turtle toolbar:
| File
related tools (These execute an action when pressed) |
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Exit
Simple Turtle |
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Show/Hide
full screen mode |
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Remove
background |
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Load
background |
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Save
picture |
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Print
picture |
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| Tools
to place objects (Click to place objects on the
current page) |
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Pick
a command |
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Set
pen colour |
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Draw
a circle |
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Draw
a square |
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Draw
a triangle |
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Pen
up |
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Pen
down |
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Repeat |
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Show/Hide
turtle toolbox (see below for further details) |
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| Tools
for stamps |
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Delete
stamp |
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Load
stamp |
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Save
stamp |
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| Additional
Tools |
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Click
here to check text in the Command Window |
The Stamp toolbar:
A selection of stamps is
available to choose from at the bottom of the screen.
You can create and save your own to this selection. You
can also modify existing stamps.
To do this, first click
on a stamp, so that the image appears on the screen:
Clicking on the small yellow
tab to the left of a stamp allows you to edit the stamp
in the Command Window.
The Turtle toolbox:
Clicking on the
icon shows the turtle toolbox on the main screen. Clicking
on the arrows lets you choose a direction for your turtle
to go in. This can be forward, back, left or right.
If you choose to go forward
or back, you will be given a choice of three distances
(10, 20, and 50 pixels)
If you choose to go left
or right, you will be given a choice of three angles to
rotate through (30º, 45º, and 90º).
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Turtle
toolbox showing choice of distances in pixels.
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Turtle
toolbox showing choice of angles to rotate
through.
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The Stamp Editor screen:
Here you can load and change
stamps (the stamps appear at the bottom of the screen
as for the Simple Turtle start up screen). Tools allow
you to modify colour, thickness of line and size of stamp.
The
Stamp Editor toolbar:
The Teacher
Settings page:
Press
Ctrl+T to get the teacher settings page.
This gives you the following
options:
Front Page
Start on Simple Turtle or start on Stamp Editor Screen
Turtle toolbox behaviour
Make the Turtle toolbox need one or two clicks
- one click always moves or turns a fixed amount
- two clicks allows three choices of distance or angle
Set turtle shape
Will take any logomotion image.
Simple Turtle directory
Choose a directory to save your work to.
Commands
Use short forms (i.e. fd) or full commands (i.e. forward)
Procedure font
Click to open standard windows font chooser.
