Beginner's Guide

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To program the gogo board, you will need to install the gogo monitor software. It supports the Logo programming language, which is very easy to get started with.

In the gogo monitor, you can create you programs by clicking on the "Logo Procedures" tab. You will write your Logo programs in the large yellow text box on the screen (See the image above.) Once you are done, press the "download" button to compile and download your program to the board. You can run your downloaded procedure by pressing the run button on the gogoboard. Note that the run button is located on the upper left area of the gogoboard (the physical board.)

A Logo program needs to be inside a procedure. Here is a simple example:

to testBeep
    repeat 10 [ beep wait 1 ]
end

The procedure in this example is called "testBeep" and it tells the gogo board to beep ten times with a short pause of 0.1 seconds in between. The keyword "to" defines the beginning of a procedure followed by a name (no spaces allowed in the name.) This is then followed by the procedure body which contains all the commands you want to gogo board to do. The keyword "end" marks the end of the procedure.

• The procedure name can be any name you want. It is good practice to define a name that can describe what the program is doing.

• You can create multiple procedures at once but the topmost procedure is always the one that will be executed first when you press the run button.