Logo Procedures

I have several reminders to give you as we start today:

1. After we watch the video below, if you have not yet defined your words on Wikispaces you need to get that done ASAP.  
2. You have a discussion in Edmodo that you need to have completed by Thursday, Oct. 27th at midnight.  The prompt is as follows:  What was the importance of learning about the Rainforest?  In addition, discuss what animal you did your research on, and what you learned about "your" animal.
3. If you did not complete the REPEAT assignment that was due last Friday, get that turned in as soon as possible.  I have started grading those, and it will take some time as I have to write each one in Logo to check to see if it works, so it may be later this week before I get everyone's graded.
4. Tomorrow we will have a "blank keyboard" assignment. This assignment will require you to fill in all of the numbers, letters, return key, tab key, shift keys, Caps lock key, space bar, period, and comma on a blank keyboard.  At this point you should know where each of these keys are and be able to label them.

To begin today we are going to watch a video on what phishing is (phishing is one of the vocab words for this week).





Logo - we will learn how to create a PROCEDURE in Logo today.  Basically a PROCEDURE is like a small program that you are going to create in Logo.  There are some rules that must be followed when creating a PROCEDURE, and they are as follows:

1. Every PROCEDURE starts with the word TO, and then you give the procedure a name
1. The name cannot have any spaces
2. Numbers and letters are acceptable
2. After giving the PROCEDURE a name, hit return and write a statement of instructions
3. Every PROCEDURE must be completed with "end"

A PROCEDURE allows a programmer to save time while writing instructions for the program.  Obviously, when writing extremely large programs, this can save lots of time.  The drawback is that a programmer may have a hundred or more different PROCEDURES they are using for a program, so they must keep track of how they name PROCEDURES and what those PROCEDURES do.