Introduction to Programming with KAREL 2025: Beginner Coding Guide

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Introduction to Programming with KAREL / CodeHS

Answers

Who/What is Karel? .....ANSWER.....Karel is a dog who listens to

your commands

What do you do with Karel? .....ANSWER.....You move Karel

around the world and put down tennis balls

Karel Commands .....ANSWER.....move();

turnLeft();

putBall();

takeBall();

Commands have .....ANSWER.....No spaces

Exact capitalization

(); at end

Rows in Karel's world are called .....ANSWER.....Streets

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Columns in karel's world are called .....ANSWER.....Avenues

If Karel is facing North and the code




turnLeft();

turnLeft();

What is a function? .....ANSWER.....A function is a way to teach

Karel a new word

Writing turnRight .....ANSWER.....functiuon turnRight(){

turnLeft();

turnLeft();

turnLeft();

}

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Why use functions? .....ANSWER.....Functions allow us to break

down our program into smaller parts, and make the program

easier to understand

Defining a function .....ANSWER.....Specifying the instructions for

a new action

Calling a function .....ANSWER.....Causing the action to actually

happen

Defining turnAround() .....ANSWER.....functiuon turnAround(){

turnLeft();

turnLeft();

}

Calling turnAround() .....ANSWER.....turnAround();

Start function .....ANSWER.....This is the function that is called

when you click run.

function start() .....ANSWER.....functiuon start(){