What is it? How to use it and how useful can it be? Logo What is it? How to use it and how useful can it be?

How to get Logo32 In St Andrews school computer system, you can get the program in the ‘take home software’ file. Y:\highschool\ict\takehomesoftware\Logo. You can download and install Logo from these websites: http://www.softronix.com/logo.html http://www.softronix.com/download/mswlogo65.exe

What is Logo? Logo is a programming language created to direct, command the turtle to move around. Logo is used in robotic control, telecommunications and multimedia.

This command draws a triangle Where commands are shown The turtle/pen Insert commands here

Basics commands NEED TO KNOW: fd & bk : forwards and backwards. lt & rt : Left turn and right turn. pu & pd : Pen up and Pen down. Here are some simple shapes: pd forward 100 rt 90 forward 100f pd rt 45 forward 90 rt 90 forward 20

Advance commands More advance commands include: Repeat ARC setfloodcolor and fill If a mistake is made, penerase can be used. This is repeat of six triangles with pen colour and fill.

Colouring TO COLOUR THE SHAPE: (remember to use American spelling while writing commands!) Setfloodcolor: this set the colour to a colour RGB (RED GREEN BLUE)values, which you need to put in after setfloodcolor. The values goes form 0 to 255. ex: setfloodcolor [255 0 0] this give a red colour. fill – fill in the color that was set. In order to fill, the turtle need to be in the shape that was to be colored, when commanded fill color that was set by setfloodcolor will fills the area. TO CHANGE PEN COLOUR AND SIZE: SetPC: set pen color. This set the colours of the line that will be drawn following this command. An RGB of colours need to be put in also. Ex: SetPC [0 255 0] changes the pen color to green SetPenSize: set pen size. This set the size of the line that is to be drawn. The width of the pen is to be put in also. Ex: SetPenSize [2 2] Pennormal: change pen back to normal size and colour. Which is back.