These are the recipes we have been developing to teach & introduce programming. We hope you’ll try them out, and let us know how they’ve worked for you. We are constantly developing, so expect more to show up from week to week. For all of our courseware design we use the ‘INTENTIONAL METHOD’ of teaching. This is an experience-first, hands-on way of teaching. For more about this method, check out this short video.

You will need to use Microsoft SmallBasic (free), plus our extensions to SmallBasic to have all of the objects. most especially the Tortoise(!) and operations that we use in our recipes. To use the recipes, click on the ”’import”’ button in SmallBasic and enter the 6-Digit recipe ID to get the recipe into your editor. Then translate each line of English comments in the recipe into a line of code. In the end, you will have a program that produces the result shown in the recipe image. Of course, you don’t have to wait till your done to run it. We encourage you to run it often, as soon as you think it will show something.

Recipes have been translated into other languages – Dutch, German, Spanish (coming soon).

Recipe Name, Image & ID Concepts & Cheat Sheet Variation Images & Information Quiz, Homework & Xtras

Simple Square — SQUARE

 IntroductionToTurtle
Colors
ForLoops
VariablesCheat Sheet – SND126

Variation Grid here

 

 Quiz – FFC797

Homework – SXG499-1

Spiral – VTM183

Cheat Sheet – LHR719

Houses – GGQ678

 IntroductionToTurtle
Colors
Variables
SubroutinesCheat Sheet – NHP985

Variation Grid – roof type, house color, grass color

Variation Cheat Sheet – GMN498

 Quiz NFN086

Homework : TRB506

4SQUARE – 4Square

Cheat Sheet – CZJ500

DigiGirlz Flower – DigiFlower

 IntroductionToTurtle
Colors
ForLoops
Subroutines
ColorWheel
EmbeddedForLoops
ProgramWindow
VariablesCheat Sheet – VVS965		 Change size, colors, line length, angles, background color

Triangle Shell – MGF108

Cheat Sheet – ZBB149

Spider Web – PTR695

 IntroductionToTurtle
Colors
Variables
SubroutinesCheat Sheet – MGR577		 Change size, colors, line length, angles, background color Quiz – QXF165

Knotted Ring – KnotRing

Cheat Sheet – VQJ995

Pentagon Crazy – KHW075

 Variables
Subroutines
IfThenElseCheat Sheet – VRD858

Watermark – WaterMark

 Quiz – LJB034

Cheat Sheet – WPB966

High-Low Game – HiLow

 IfThenElse
MessageBoxCheat Sheet – RGK644		 Add additional validation around user input Quiz – ZLS593

Turtle Tree – QVF598-0

 

 IntroductionToTurtle
GraphicsWindow
Properties
ForLoops
Variables
SubroutinesCheat Sheet – DPD960		 Vary shape, size of tree Quiz – JMB996

Connect the Dots – Dots

 Events
ShapeMakerCheat Sheet – QWB852		 Intervals None

Simple Bubble – BWX579

 Events
ShapeMaker
Arrays (in the variation)Cheat Sheet – LDH867

Variation (teacher recipe at Bubbles-0,

Cheat Sheet – TFC068

 Quiz – NBB727

Tic Tac Toe Player – ZNV196

 Events
Exceptions
Cheat Sheet – VTC563		 Make new types of players None

Ad Libs – QWF808

 String Concatenation
MessageBox
Model_view_Controller (in the variations)Cheat Sheet – NXK897		 Variation One – ZTM891Variation Two – DZS841-0 None

Holiday Card – CWV381

 

 IntroductionToTurtle
Colors
ForLoops
Variables
EventsCheat Sheet – LNH851		 Change size, number of trees None
<FUTURE> x x x

DEMO recipe (Giant Tortoise) – ZWQ663

 IntroductionToTurtleCheat Sheet – BMJ091 Quiz – PDW305
if you have any ideas for a recipe, let us know did you use the Cheat Sheet? email us with your variation ID, we love to see what you did we are writing more quizzes, watch for updates