https://github.com/dobbs/turtle

turtle graphics for javascript
https://github.com/dobbs/turtle

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turtle graphics for javascript

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dobbs/turtle
• Owner: dobbs
• License: other
• Created: 2010-11-23T00:48:19.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-10-25T15:12:47.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T12:34:10.944Z (3 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 185 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: history.js
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
turtle graphics in javascript

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established November 2010

Turtle graphics are a powerful tool for using computers to teach some

sophisticated concepts in an age appropriate way to even young

children.  

For example, in the summer of 2008 I used LOGO to teach an advanced

fifth-grader about fractals, recursion, functional programming, and

removing repetition in an extremely small number of lines of code and

in only a few hours at the computer.  I wrote about that experience in

detail here:

[Logo, Fractals, and Recursion; Programming, and Removing Repetition](http://dobbse.net/thinair/2008/12/logo-fractals-recursion.html)

My main motivation for developing this library is to enable others to

repeat those exercises in a web browser, especially on a mobile phone

or tablet computer.  

As of September 2011 I've got most of the tools I was hoping to build

including a kind of command history and versioning, an interactive

shell and some animation.  See the live demo at http://dobbs.github.com.

-Eric