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 <chapter id="getting-started">
 <title>Getting Started</title>
 <para>When you start &kturtle; you will see something like this:</para>
 <screenshot>
   <screeninfo>Here is a screenshot of &kturtle; when you start it for the first time</screeninfo>
   <mediaobject>
     <imageobject>
       <imagedata fileref="mainwindow.png" format="PNG"/>
     </imageobject>
     <textobject>
       <phrase>&kturtle; on a fresh start</phrase>
     </textobject>
   </mediaobject>
 </screenshot>
 <para>In this Getting Started guide we assume that the language of the &turtlescript; commands is English. You can change this language with the <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guisubmenu>Script Language</guisubmenu></menuchoice> submenu. Be aware that the language you set here for &kturtle; is the one you use to type the &turtlescript; commands, not the language used by &kde; on your computer and used to display the &kturtle; interface and menus.</para>
 
 <sect1 id="first-steps">
 <title>First steps with &turtlescript;: meet the Turtle!</title>
 <para>You must have noticed the turtle in the middle of the canvas: you are just about to learn how to control it using commands in the editor.</para>
 
 <sect2 id="the-turtle-moves">
 <title>The Turtle Moves</title>
 <para>Let us start by getting the turtle moving. Our turtle can do 3 types of moves, (1) it can move forwards and backwards, (2) it can turn left and right and (3) it can go (jump) directly to a position on the screen. Try this for example:</para>
 <para>
 <screen>
 forward 100
 turnleft 90 
 </screen>
 Type or copy-paste the code to the editor and execute it (using <link linkend="run-execute"><menuchoice><guimenu>Run</guimenu><guimenuitem>Run</guimenuitem></menuchoice></link>) to see the result.</para>
 
 <para>When you typed and executed the commands like above in the editor you might have noticed one or more of the following things:</para>
 <orderedlist>
 <listitem><para>That &mdash; after executing the commands &mdash; the turtle moves up, draws a line, and then turns a quarter turn to the left. This because you have used the <link linkend="forward"><userinput>forward</userinput></link> and the <link linkend="turnleft"><userinput>turnleft</userinput></link> commands.</para>
 </listitem>
 <listitem>
 <para>That the color of the code changed while you where typing it: this feature is called <emphasis>intuitive highlighting</emphasis> &mdash; different types of commands are highlighted differently. This makes reading large blocks of code more easy.</para>
 </listitem>
 <listitem>
 <para>That the turtle draws a thin black line.</para>
 </listitem>
 <listitem>
 <para>Maybe you got an error message. This could simply mean two things: you could have made a mistake while copying the commands, or you should still set the correct language for the &turtlescript; commands (you can do that by choosing the <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guisubmenu>Script Language</guisubmenu></menuchoice> submenu).</para>
 </listitem>
 </orderedlist>
 
 <para>You will likely understand that <userinput>forward 100</userinput> instructed the turtle to move forward leaving a line, and that <userinput>turnleft 90</userinput> instructed the turtle to turn 90 <glossterm linkend="degrees">degrees</glossterm> to the left.</para>
 
 <para>Please see the following links to the reference manual for a complete explanation of the new commands: <link linkend="forward"><userinput>forward</userinput></link>, <link linkend="backward"><userinput>backward</userinput></link>, <link linkend="turnleft"><userinput>turnleft</userinput></link>, and <link linkend="turnright"><userinput>turnright</userinput></link>.</para>
 </sect2>
 
 <sect2 id="more-examples">
 <title>More examples</title>
 <para>The first example was very simple, so let us go on!</para>
 
 <para>
 
 <screen>
 reset
 
 canvassize 200,200
 canvascolor 0,0,0
 pencolor 255,0,0
 penwidth 5
 
 go 20,20
 direction 135
 
 forward 200
 turnleft 135
 forward 100
 turnleft 135
 forward 141
 turnleft 135
 forward 100
 turnleft 45
 
 go 40,100
 </screen>
 Again you can type or copy-paste the code to the editor or open the <filename>arrow</filename> example in the <guimenu>Examples</guimenu> submenu and execute it (using <link linkend="run-execute"><menuchoice><guimenu>Run</guimenu><guimenuitem>Run</guimenuitem></menuchoice></link>) to see the result. In the next examples you are expected to know the drill.</para>
 
 <para>You might have noticed that this second example uses a lot more code. You have also seen a couple of new commands. Here a short explanation of all the new commands:</para>
 
 <para>After a <userinput>reset</userinput> command everything is like is was when you had just started &kturtle;.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>canvassize 200,200</userinput> sets the canvas width and height to 200 <glossterm linkend="pixels">pixels</glossterm>. The width and the height are equal, so the canvas will be a square.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>canvascolor 0,0,0</userinput> makes the canvas black. <userinput>0,0,0</userinput> is a <glossterm linkend="rgb">RGB-combination</glossterm> where all values are set to <userinput>0</userinput>, which results in black.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>pencolor 255,0,0</userinput> sets the color of the pen to red. <userinput>255,0,0</userinput> is a <glossterm linkend="rgb">RGB-combination</glossterm> where only the red value is set to <userinput>255</userinput> (fully on) while the others (green and blue) are set to <userinput>0</userinput> (fully off). This results in a bright shade of red.</para>
 
 <para>If you do not understand the color values, be sure to read the glossary on <glossterm linkend="rgb">RGB-combination</glossterm>.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>penwidth 5</userinput> sets the width (the size) of the pen to <userinput>5</userinput> <glossterm linkend="pixels">pixels</glossterm>. From now on every line the turtle draw will have a thickness of <userinput>5</userinput>, until we change the <userinput>penwidth</userinput> to something else.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>go 20,20</userinput> commands the turtle to go to a certain place on the canvas. Counted from the upper left corner, this place is 20 <glossterm linkend="pixels">pixels</glossterm> across from the left, and 20 <glossterm linkend="pixels">pixels</glossterm> down from the top of the canvas. Note that using the <userinput>go</userinput> command the turtle will not draw a line.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>direction 135</userinput> set the turtle's direction. The <userinput>turnleft</userinput> and <userinput>turnright</userinput> commands change the turtle's angle starting from its current direction. The <userinput>direction</userinput> command changes the turtle's angle from zero, and thus is not relative to the turtle previous direction.</para>
 
 <para>After the <userinput>direction</userinput> command a lot of <userinput>forward</userinput> and <userinput>turnleft</userinput> commands follow. These command do the actual drawing.</para>
 
 <para>At last another <userinput>go</userinput> command is used to move the turtle aside.</para>
 
 <para>Make sure you follow the links to the reference. The reference explains each command more thoroughly.</para>
 
 
 </sect2>
 </sect1>
 
 
 
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 <sect1 id="calculations">
 <title>Simple Calculations</title>
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 <sect1 id="using_variables">
 <title>Using Variables: creating 'number containers'</title>
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 <sect1 id="using_strings">
 <title>Using strings: creating 'text containers'</title>
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 <sect1 id="logic">
 <title>Logic: asking the computer simple questions</title>
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 Not yet written
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 <sect1 id="recursion">
 <title>Recursion: the Turtle is using itself</title>
 <para>
 Draw a maze for example
 </para>
 </sect1>
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 </chapter>