KTurtle

Version 0.8
© 2003-2008 Cies Breijs

KTurtle is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2.
 

Description

KTurtle is an educational programming environment for the KDE Desktop. KTurtle aims to make programming as easy and touchable as possible, and therefore can be used to teach kids the basics of math, geometry and... programming.

The programming language used in KTurtle is loosly based on Logo. KTurtle allows, just like some implementations of Logo, to translate the programming language (the commands, the documentation and the error messages) to native language of the programmer. For more information on translating KTurtle please read the translation how to. Translating the programming language to the native language of the programmer is one of the many ways KTurtle tries to make learning to programming more simple. Other features to help to achieve this goal are: intuitive syntax highlighting, simple error messages, integrated canvas to make drawings on, integrated help function, slow-motion or step execution, and more.

Current Development

The next release of KDE will be KDE 4, this release is currently in development. KTurtle follows the KDE release cycle, the next release of KTurtle will be part of KDE4. This release will be a full rewrite of the 'old' KTurtle as it shipped with KDE 3.x. All current development effort is put into this next release of KTurtle.

A lot of things will change in this upcoming version of KTurtle. For instance the syntax of the KTurtle programming language will change: most old programs will not run. Also the way the KTurtle is translated will change. All these changes are made to set straight mistakes that where made in the previous release, right now the KTurtle version that is in development will almost certainly grow into a 1.0 release.

To build the development version of KTurtle have a look at the obtain page.

There is also a KTurtle google group to discuss current KTurtle development issues.

Latest News

Screenshots

Some screenshots to give you an idea of the possibilities of KTurtle:

pics/kturtle1.png KTurtle at first start	pics/kturtle2.png A flower
pics/kturtle3.png Nice heart	pics/kturtle4.png File -> Open Example -> curly.logo

Authors: Anne-Marie Mahfouf and Cies Breijs
Last update: 2008-01-11