MicroWorlds

Bouncing Turtles Off Colours

or Programming Colours

Colours can be programmed like turtles.

Select the painting tool

Right mouse click on the colour Red
The dialog box should appear
Enter the Turtle instruction rt 180 and select Each time
Now put a red shape on the page and program a turtle to run into it.

Add a bark to your dog (using announce)

Hatch a new turtle. In the instruction box type runbark. Go to the procedures page and type in the following procedure

to runbark
repeat 30[setsh "dog1 fd 5 wait 1 setsh "dog2 fd 5 wait 1]
wait 6
announce [Woof Woof]
end

now go back to the page and click on your turtle.

Bird flying towards you and then away

Hatch a new turtle

Give it the instruction fly

Write the procedure to fly shown below in the procedures page, go back to the main page and click on the turtle and it should fly towards you and then away.

To fly
setsize 5
make "no 5
repeat 60[setsh "bird1 fd 2 wait 1 setsh "bird2 fd 2 wait 1 make "no :no + 2 setsize :no]
repeat 60[setsh "bird1 fd 2 wait 1 setsh "bird2 fd 2 wait 1 make "no :no - 2 setsize :no]
end

Have this work checked, saving the project and then you can proceed to the Major Project for this level.


Created by Geoff Adcock
Last Update: 22-Oct-2006