Giving commands to a computer, which is what programming is all about, is just like giving commands to a dog. Learn how to code with Karel the Dog—a fun, accessible, and visual …

Karel is an educational programming language for beginners, created by Richard E. Pattis in his book Karel The Robot: A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Programming.

Karel has been used in introductory computer science courses all across the world and has been taught to millions of students. Many generations of Stanford students learned how …

Explore the programming languages and types of programs you can write in the CodeHS IDE. All programs are runnable in the browser—even on Chromebooks! Code instructions for Karel the …

KAREL is a lower-level language very similar to Pascal. It features strongly typed variables, constants, custom types, procedures, functions, and gives you access to all sorts of useful …

Karel IDE is a programming environment for learning and practicing coding skills, developed by Stanford University.

Karel is a great introduction to scripted programming. Students can concentrate on learning logic while they practice typing the Python-based code in their native language (English, Spanish, …

Karel is a dog that lives in a grid world. Karel can move around the grid world and put down and take tennis balls, and we can use Karel to solve different problems and explore the basics of …

In this lesson, students are introduced to CodeHS and how Karel the Dog can be given a set of instructions to perform a simple task. In this lesson, students will learn how they can create …

Comments in both Karel and Python begin with the characters # and include the rest of the line. In a simple program, extensive comments may seem silly because the effect of the program is …