{"id":284,"date":"2021-09-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alphonsedevasia.com\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2022-09-03T17:35:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T13:35:53","slug":"the-turtle-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphonsedevasia.com\/blog\/the-turtle-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The Turtle System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">To experience the pleasure of intellectual creativity as children capture their imaginative ideas in computer code, The Turtle system provides an intuitively &#8220;natural&#8221; way to start programming where technical complications are kept to a minimum.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turtle.ox.ac.uk\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alphonsedevasia.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/09\/screenshot-2021-09-05-at-1.14.59-pm.png?w=178\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-796\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turtle.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">The Turtle System<\/span><\/a> is a free educational program developed at the University of Oxford, designed to support the new Computer Science component of the National Curriculum and to bridge the \u201cPost-Scratch Gap\u201d between visual programming systems like Scratch and text-based programming. It is based on Turtle Graphics, an idea invented by Seymour Papert, in which an imaginary turtle moves around the computer screen drawing as it goes, all under the control of instructions given by a computer program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turtle.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Turtle System<\/a><\/span> supports several languages, all of which are compiled to portable code for a virtual Turtle Machine. The workings of the compilers and of the Turtle Machine are all open to inspection, providing many additional learning opportunities for advanced students. 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