KTurtle

Infobox_Software
name = KTurtle

caption = KTurtle version 0.7
developer = Cies Breijs
latest_release_version = 0.7 (part of KDE 3.5.5)
latest_release_date = October 11, 2006
operating_system = Linux, Unix and like operating systems, Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin)
genre = Educational software, Programming language
license = GPL
website = [http://edu.kde.org/kturtle http://edu.kde.org/kturtle]

KTurtle is an educational programming environment for turtle graphics. It is released under the GNU General Public License (copyleft free software license) and is part of the KDE desktop environment. KTurtle has a built-in programming language that is loosely based on the Logo programming language. It is one of the few localized programming languages; the programming commands are translated to the human language of the programmer.

KTurtle has been packaged by many Linux/BSD distributions, including Red Hat Linux, Suse, Mandrake, and Debian. Some distributions package KTurtle as a separate application, some just provide on package for the whole kdeedu module, which includes KTurtle.

The KTurtle language and IDE are limited to teaching programming using turtle graphics, and is not intended for other applications.

See also

*Logo programming language
*"Turtle Art", a very similar activity on the OLPC XO-1

External links

* [http://edu.kde.org/kturtle/ KTurtle project page]
* [http://kturtle.sf.net The old KTurtle project page]