Take a tour of turtleSpaces and see what’s possible with Logo in 3D!
This is the same tour Shelly the turtle gives when you first open the IDE. In turtleSpaces you write Logo code to steer turtles around a 3D world.
File handles saving, loading and sharing your projects. Editor, Turtle, Settings and View control the workspace. Help is where you can find references, books and tutorials.
The left side is your workspace: write Logo procedures in the Edit tab, or snap them together visually in the Blocks tab. Changes here become the program your turtles run.
Pick a procedure from the dropdown and press Run to execute it. Reset clears the scene, and Backtrack steps your last command backwards.
Type Logo commands here and they run right away. Try FORWARD 50 or RIGHT 90 and watch the turtle move. It’s great for experimenting before you put code in a procedure.
This is where your turtles live! Drag with the mouse to orbit the camera around the scene, and scroll to zoom in and out. You can always get back to the default view with the RESETCAMERA command.
Stuck for ideas? The Examples menu opens a browser full of ready-made projects. Load one, run it, and poke at the code to see how it works. You can also browse the examples straight from here.
When you make something you like, sign in to save your projects to the cloud and share them with other people. You can keep playing as a guest, but signed-in work is never lost.
To see Shelly’s tour again inside the IDE, open Help, then Welcome. Then keep going with the Tutorials, the Examples, the Shape Guides and the Reference.
Launch the IDE and draw something amazing!