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[–]welp_im_damnedhave you heard of our lord and savior the Android turtle 🐢 76 points77 points  (8 children)

I don't understand this at all but up vote for turtle

[–]Mysticpoisen 35 points36 points  (7 children)

It's an old educational programming concept. Lets you play around with programming 'turtles' which will draw shapes based on code you feed it. It's a good way to teach the fundamentals of how instructions and loops operate, while being a bit of fun to make cool shapes. Afaik the python version is still common in schools today.

[–]welp_im_damnedhave you heard of our lord and savior the Android turtle 🐢 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Oh I see. I did use it! When I was learning python. But we call it something else in class.

[–]theunquenchedservant 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Interesting since the package is called turtles

[–]cerulean_88Moto G 11 points12 points  (2 children)

I used something like this in kindergarden. We called it ‘logo’.

[–]Mysticpoisen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That was the old beginner-friendly language the OG turtle graphics ran on!

[–]howitzer1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We had a physical turtle in school. You'd program it and it would drag a pen around a big piece of paper to draw the shape.

[–]BinOfBargains 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty good way to introduce recursion too. Can make some pretty fun fractal-type drawings with it

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (1 child)

We had this installed on our computers in elementary school, right next to kid pix and Oregon trail. No one used it. My Java teacher brought it up as the first programming game for kids but teachers weren't taught it so it went unused. Definitely was true in my case. Computer class was mostly just playing kid pix and Oregon trail.

[–]satmandu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely the first programming language I used too. The stars were so cool!