About Karel's Programming Environment

What is Karel's Programming Environment

Karel's Programming Environment is what you see on the screen of your computer when you run the Karel program. It lets you edit programs, change the way Karel's world looks, turn on Karel's power, read programs into his onboard control computer, and tell him to execute programs. When you execute a program, you'll see what Karel does.

Component parts of Karel's Programming Environment

Karel's Programming Environment is broken up into several different regions of the computer screen. You can see these in the picture of Karel's Programming Environment. The programming environment is a windo arranged in subwindows. There is a group of lists on the lift side, there is an editing window in the middle, and there is a world-view window on the right.

List Selections, the File Menu, and Control Buttons for Karel's Programming Environment

There are words in lists on the left side of the screen in Karel's Programming Environment. Clicking on these words makes things get typed into the editor window.
There is a screen button labeled FILE MENU above the editing window that lets you save the program you're editing, edit another program, or print the current program on a printer.
There are several screen buttons above the world view window that let you do things like turn Karel's power on or off, read programs into Karel's computer memory, initialize Karel's world, and ask Karel to execute the program that has been read into his computer memory. Each control button is associated with a specific event. You get that event to occur by clicking the associated control button.

Using List Selections, the File Menu, and Control Buttons

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