Very useful idea for a project get pre-reading children started. It can be implemented analogously using mouse & message passing, by having children click on icon sprites to control the turtle, which gives more opportunities to give feedback to the child. I've begun implementing such a project.
I did a one key project in logo (before I found scratch) where my children would sound out the keys strokes RRRR to do a square and so on and then press a button to repeat the pattern (see www.redware.com/logo). It works well with 3-5 year olds but unfortunately scratch does not have memory so could not implement here.
Download the one sprite and 12 scripts of "onekey" and open it in Scratch
Project Notes
onekey allows young programmers to learn motions by pressing a single key.
Press:
SPACE to clear.
F or UP to go Forwards.
B or DOWN to go Back.
R or RIGHT to go right.
L or LEFT to go left.
U for pen up.
D for pen down.
A square is FRRR FRRR FRRR FRRR and a triangle FRR FRR FRR. Try FRRRRR many times for a star.
This is an implementation of one key logo.
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Very useful idea for a project get pre-reading children started. It can be implemented analogously using mouse & message passing, by having children click on icon sprites to control the turtle, which gives more opportunities to give feedback to the child. I've begun implementing such a project.
I did a one key project in logo (before I found scratch) where my children would sound out the keys strokes RRRR to do a square and so on and then press a button to repeat the pattern (see www.redware.com/logo). It works well with 3-5 year olds but unfortunately scratch does not have memory so could not implement here.
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