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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 at a location in the grid specified by the user that the turtle must navigate around. the turtle uses its senses and memory to evaluate the world that it is in to count the total number of patches it has passed, remember the number of yellow patches it has seen and measure the size of the grid. It also uses a sense of purpose (its knowledge of the column that it's supposed to be on) to overcome obstacles (the brown square).
set-up: goes through the patches, forms a large brown square around a relative point specified by the user 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
adjust the slider to the desired % of yellow squares
hit set-up to set-up
"actual number" is a tally used in painting the patches yellow that gives the right number of yellow patches
"# seen" keeps track of how many yellow patches the turtle has seen
"# visited" keeps track of the total number of patches that the turtle has been on
"guess" divides the above to variables to guess at the percentage of yellow squares (which the user specifies)
"col. size" counts the number of patches in the first column so that the turtle can calculate how large the arena is
"estimated #" multiplies percantage by column size squared (minus 64 for the brown square)
hit go to go
rob korobkin hc '08
march 26, 2006