Transcription of Karel the Robot Learns Java - Stanford Computer Science
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Karel THE ROBOTLEARNS JAVAEric RobertsDepartment of Computer ScienceStanford UniversitySeptember 2005 Chapter 1 Introducing Karel the RobotIn the 1970s, a Stanford graduate student named Rich Pattis decided that it would beeasier to teach the fundamentals of programming if students could somehow learn thebasic ideas in a simple environment free from the complexities that characterize mostprogramming languages. Drawing inspiration from the success of Seymour Papert sLOGO project at MIT, Rich designed an introductory programming environment inwhich students teach a Robot to solve simple problems. That Robot was named Karel ,after the Czech playwright Karel Capek,whose 1923 play (Rossum s UniversalRobots) gave the word Robot to the English the Robot was quite a success.
programming, modern languages like Java emphasize a different approach called the object-oriented paradigm. In object-oriented programming, the programmer’s attention shifts away from the procedural specification of operations and focuses instead on modeling the behavior of conceptually integrated units called objects. Objects in a
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