3TALKING TO YOUR TURTLE
IT’S ALIVE! In Chapter 2, you created your first turtle robot, fueled it, and brought it to life. Your robotic creation has a body, but it doesn’t have much in the way of a brain. A Minecraft turtle’s brain is its program, which tells it what to do. Without a program to run, your robot doesn’t do anything. Let’s give the robot a bit of personality by writing a program that lets us talk with it.
TEACHING YOUR TURTLE TO SAY HELLO!
We’ll use the turtle’s edit program to create a new file and write and edit our first program. Programs like the edit program, which we use to write other programs, are called text editors. Right-click ...
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