Transcription of KAREL THE ROBOT - 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.
Robots) gave the word robot to the English language. Karel the Robot was quite a success. Karel was used in introductory computer science courses all across the country, to the point that Rich’s textbook sold well over 100,000 copies. Many generations of CS106A students learned how programming works by putting Karel through its paces.
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