[MWForum]Circle and arc help
Mikula Family
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Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:23:06 -0600
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You take me back Traci! I too missed circler and circlel but the kids
did learn to draw their own circles by varying the steps forward within
the repeat command. Arc was really hard for them and I never again had a
student who could design the smurf house or a domed building. I look
forward to answers. Those tools and a spell checker would be good
additions to the next upgrade.
Kate Mikula (Ret.)
"Trimbach, Traci" wrote:
> I am hoping there is someone out there familiar with LogoWriter and
> MicroWorlds who might be able to answer this question.
>
> In Logowriter there was a page you could execute at startup called
> turttools. That page contained four commands: arcr, arcl, circler,
> and circlel. These commands used pi to calculate the size of circle
> and arc to draw based on the input you used with the command. So far
> I have not been able to find any commands like that so my students
> have been drawing circles using repeat statements. What different
> ways can you draw circles in MicroWorlds?
>
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<b><font color="#4B19FF">You take me back Traci!</font></b> I too missed
circler and circlel but the kids did learn to draw their own circles by
varying the steps forward within the repeat command. Arc was really hard
for them and I never again had a student who could design the smurf house
or a domed building. I look forward to answers. Those tools and a spell
checker would be good additions to the next upgrade.
<p>Kate Mikula (Ret.)
<p>"Trimbach, Traci" wrote:
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am hoping there is someone out there familiar with LogoWriter and MicroWorlds
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>In
Logowriter there was a page you could execute at startup called turttools.
That page contained four commands: arcr, arcl, circler, and circlel.
These commands used pi to calculate the size of circle and arc to draw
based on the input you used with the command. So far I have not been
able to find any commands like that so my students have been drawing circles
using repeat statements. What different ways can you draw circles
in MicroWorlds?</font></font></span></div>
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