Alternatives to KTurtle
An educational programming environment from KDE that teaches coding by drawing with turtle graphics. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
KTurtle
An educational programming environment from KDE that teaches coding by drawing with turtle graphics.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as KTurtle.
Scratch
A free block-based programming language and online community for making interactive stories, games and animations.
Scratch uses visual blocks in the browser instead of typed commands and adds a large community for sharing projects, though it is not open source.
Thonny
A Python IDE for beginners that comes bundled with Python and includes a simple debugger.
Thonny moves beginners to real Python with a bundled interpreter and simple debugger, and it runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.
MakeCode Arcade
Learn game programming with blocks and code in a browser.
MakeCode Arcade teaches game programming with blocks and code in the browser, is open source under MIT, and can deploy to supported handheld hardware.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Sololearn
An app for learning programming and AI topics through short interactive lessons on web and mobile.
Mimo
An interactive app for learning to code in Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL and more.
BlocksCAD
A browser-based tool for creating 3D models with block-based visual programming, aimed at schools.
Exercism
A free online platform for practising programming through exercises in dozens of languages, with optional mentoring.
