The first thing to do is cheat like crazy to finish levels 1-5.
More Logo
Logo is a text based programming language that was many created years ago by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. The name was inspired by the greek word logos, which means word or thought.
Logo was designed to help people learn coding. It allows the coder to control the movement of a pointer or turtle on the screen. The turtle can be asked to draw lines behind it as it travels across the screen.
In Year 5, we worked with Purple Mash Logo in the Time Crimes of Logonator. We aimed to complete the levels up to number 5, “The Viking Village”. We will work on from there.
Rocket Research
There is a lot going on in Rocket Research. Let’s break it down carefully.
Logo Commands
Here are all the logo commands you can see in the panel on the right. If you need to put some things after the command, they are numbers n, angles a, logo colour names c, words "w, or lists [...].
Polygons
We can draw regular polygons.
Polygon Patterns
Using tweaks to polygon repeats can make pretty patterns.
Random
Add a touch of random to your patterns.
The Random Command
- random n
- Generates a random number between 0 and n-1.
Using in Pattern Code
This code picks a random colour and points to a random angle. Can you see how the random number is chosen to be in suitable range for either the colour or the angle?
Repcount
Use the secret variable repcount to jazz up patterns to the max.