Guido van Robot

 

 Includes the concepts of basic commands, program flow control, and functions.  You're able to see the robot move around in real-time.  Seems to me that you can get the same experience from the preinstalled Etoys activity.

The following text is taken from the built-in help:

Welcome to the Guido van Robot world. Guido van Robot, or GvR for short, is a programming language and free software application designed to introduce beginners to the fundamentals of programming.  GvR runs on GNU/Linux, XO, Windows, and Macintosh, in a variety of languages!  It's great in both the classroom and the home as a way of introducing people to the basic concepts of programming.

At this point, you are probably asking yourself,  What is GvR, specifically? The gist of it is that it is a robot represented by a triangle on the screen that moves around in a world made up of streets and avenues, walls and beepers, which Guido can collect or set. His actions are completely guided by a program written by the user.

GvR comes with 18 lessons and assignments and a language reference.  See the "Lessons" tab and start with lesson 1. Use the "Language reference" tab to get a overview of the GvR language.

Additional help and information:

 

Guido van Robot Worldbuilder Summary

Editing world:

  •    Left mouse button : Add or remove walls

  •    Middle mouse button: Set arguments for the robot statement

  •    Right mouse button: Set arguments for the beeper statement

Buttons:

  •    Reload   : Reload the world from the editor window into the worldbuilder.

  •    Abort    : Quit the worldbuilder, *not* GvRng.

 

 

 Page last changed: 06/11/2008