2) Basic Controls

Before you do anything with a turtle, you must have a turtle.

Turtle bob = new Turtle();

The line above creates the turtle bob. You can name your turtle whatever you want or even have multiple turtles. However, all the assignments for CP1 will only require 1 turtle and I will always call him bob to avoid confusion.

The first thing you will want to do is make your turtle do something.

bob.forward(200) will make the turtle move 200 pixels and draw a line as it moves.

As you can see, the turtle will start in the middle of the screen facing the right.

bob.left(90) will turn the turtle 90 degrees to the left. To verify that something happened, throw another bob.forward(200) in your code and you should see the following.

Congratulations, you can now draw whatever your heart desires.