Karel the Robot   Other Resources

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• The coining of the word Robot is often attributed to Karel Čapek, a Czech playwright. Read more about the play R.U.R. that popularized the term (and discover who really created the word).

• Homepage of Richard Pattis, the author of Karel the Robot

• Teaching Programming Using the Karel the Robot Paradigm Realized with a Conventional Language -- an academic paper

• Mini-languages: A Way to Learn Programming Principles -- an academic paper

• Teaching Programming to Novices: A Review of Approaches and Tools -- an academic paper

• Reducing the dropout rate in an introductory programming course -- an academic paper

• Eine Übersicht über verschiedene Entwicklungen, die auf der Idee von "Karel, the Robot" basieren. -- a survey paper

• A UNIX Karel the Robot simulator

• A PocketC Karel the Robot simulator for the Palm Pilot
  (see also this related FreewarePalm link.)

• Karel++ -- Joseph Bergin's site; includes Karel++ software to download
  See also this related Karel++ book link.
  See also siblings Karel J. Robot (a Java-based Karel) and Monty Karel (a Python-based Karel).

• Robots, an interesting implementation of Karel the Robot.

• Knobby, a relative of Karel the Robot

• RoBOTL, a descendant of Karel the Robot

• Jeroo, a novel approach and tool inspired by Karel the Robot

• An almost forgotten (and out-of-print) classic:
  First Book of Josef: An Introduction to Computer Programming

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