[IAEP] Emulating Alice in Turtle?

[Walter Bender]

I'll sketch out a TA project for you to do this... Not too complicated.

-walter

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Brooks, Kevin <Kevin.Brooks at ndsu.edu> wrote:
> The kids in our after school program love Alice (Speak), and we have talked
> to them about how she works.  I just realized that we could get them to
> emulate Alice's opening moves in Turtle Blocks, with either the "speak" or
> "show" media objects, but I can't figure out if it is possible to program a
> response in Turtle using the "query keyboard" block from the sensors palette
> (or some other block like "print" from Python blocks).  In other words,
>
> Speak -- Hello, my name is Alice.
> Speak -- What is your name?
> query keyboard ...
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> ... and allow students to type in their name followed by
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> Speak -- That's a funny / cool / name (or whatever response the kids want to
> put in).  Getting them to program multiple options would be ideal!
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Kevin
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> galactic environments and energies in a harmonious way.  -- Marshall McLuhan
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