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WHAT IS IT?

This program paints a certain percentage of patches yellow, and then sends a turtle through the grid to count the number of yellow patches. a large brown square is generated in the center of the grid that the turtle must navigate around. the turtle uses its senses and memory to evaluate the world that it is in (counting squares) and to overcome obstacles (the brown square), which it does by remembering its original position.


HOW IT WORKS

set-up: goes through the patches, turns the center into a large brown square and for each remaining patch generates a random number between 1 and 100. if that number is less than the given percentage it paints the patch yellow. the turtle is set to be alive at the bottom left with a counter of zero.

go: if the turtle is alive,

it looks to see if it is on a yellow square.
if it is: it increases its counter
and reports it to the global counter

it looks at its position.
if it's below the brown square it goes around it

else if it's at the top of a line, it starts the next line
if it's at the top right, it sets its life variable to dead
if it's neither, it just goes up one

go around
if the turtle goes right until the end of the square
then goes up the side of the square
then returns to the column, which it was at


HOW TO USE IT

adjust the slider to the desired % of yellow squares
hit set-up to set-up
hit go to go


CREDITS AND REFERENCES

rob korobkin hc '08
march 26, 2006