mr-coxall/turtle-logo 1.0.0 GitHub

Turtle Logo Extension Overview

Turtle Logo blocks

Introductory Turtle Logo Lessons for Students

You can get a set of introductory lessons for students to Turtle Logo here:

• Lesson #1 → “Hello, World!” YouTube - Arcade tutorial & restricted IDE
• Lesson #2 → Moving Turtle YouTube - Arcade tutorial & restricted IDE
• Lesson #3 → Turning Turtle YouTube - Arcade tutorial & restricted IDE
• Lesson #4 → Pen color YouTube - Arcade tutorial & restricted IDE
• Lesson #5 → Pen Up YouTube - Arcade tutorial & restricted IDE
• Lesson #6 → Looping YouTube - Arcade tutorial & restricted IDE

Advanced Turtle Logo Lessons for Students

You can get a set of advanced lessons, using variables and sprites for students to Turtle Logo here:

• Lesson #1 → “Hello, World!” YouTube - Restricted IDE
• Lesson #2 → Moving Turtle YouTube - Restricted IDE
• Lesson #3 → Turning Turtle YouTube - Restricted IDE
• Lesson #4 → Pen color YouTube - Restricted IDE
• Lesson #5 → Pen Up YouTube - Restricted IDE
• Lesson #6 → Looping YouTube - Restricted IDE

MakeCode Arcade Extension

This MakeCode Arcade Extension adds “Turtle Logo” programming language to make code. This code uses a previous version (https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-screen-turtle) but I needed some specific changes as requested by the elementary teacher I was working with:

• needed to minimize the number of blocks
• needed to change some block names, to help student’s
• needed to use cartesian coordinates, (0,0) being in the center of the screen

See an example in actions at:

Open this page at https://mr-coxall.github.io/turtle-logo/

Use as Extension

This repository can be added as an extension in MakeCode.

• open https://arcade.makecode.com/
• click on New Project
• click on Extensions under the gearwheel menu
• search for https://github.com/mr-coxall/turtle-logo and import

This repository can be added as an extension in MakeCode.

Edit this project

To edit this repository in MakeCode.

• open https://arcade.makecode.com/
• click on Import then click on Import URL
• paste https://github.com/mr-coxall/turtle-logo and click import

Blocks preview

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Metadata (used for search, rendering)

• for PXT/arcade

  makeCodeRender(“{{ site.makecode.home_url }}”, “{{ site.github.owner_name }}/{{ site.github.repository_name }}”);

Turtle Logo=github:mr-coxall/turtle-logo#v1.0.0