Karel's Programming Environment

Karel is a robot who was conceived and written of by Richard Pattis in his book Karel the Robot: a Gentle Infroduction to the Art of Programming with Pascal, Wiley and Sons, 1981.

Pattis' goal was to introduce students to programming with a minimum of required knowledge. In this way, students can concentrate on developing well-structured programs immediately. Pattis' students would move on from Karel programming to developing Pascal programs, thus his language had some of the syntactic trappings of Pascal.

The same motivation was used for developing a Karel robot simulator at the University of Florida for use in a special offering of the course EGN 1002 Freshman Engineering Laboratory. Students in the course carry out laboratory exercises in each of the University's engineering departments. Because of the diversity of backgrounds, we decided to use a Karel-like simulator and programming environment with a point-and-click interface.

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This document is copyright 1994 by Joseph N. Wilson.
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