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Welcome to this tutorial on Common Errors in KTurtle.

Learning Objectives

• Syntax errors

• Runtime errors

• Logical errors

System Requirement

Ubuntu Linux OS v. 12.04.

KTurtle v. 0.8.1 beta.

Pre-requisites

If not,

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Definition of Error

Error is a mistake in a program that produces an incorrect or unexpected result.

Syntax Errors

Compilation fails when a program has syntax errors.

Syntax errors are easy to find and fix.

For Example:

• Unmatched parentheses, square brackets and curly braces.

• Use of variable that has not been declared.

• Missing quotes in strings.

Dash home >>Search bar appears>>

In the Search bar type KTurtle

Click on the KTurtle icon.

Click on Dash home. The Search bar appears.

In the Search bar, type KTurtle.

Click on the KTurtle icon.

$a=ask "enter any number and click Ok"

$a=ask "enter a number and click Ok"

#$a=ask "enter a number and click ok"

print $a^3'

spritehide

Pause the tutorial and type the program your into KTurtle editor

Resume the tutorial after typing the program.

Complier shows the following error,

The variable "$a" was used without first being assigned to a value.

Remove the comment

$a=ask "enter a number and click ok"

print $a^3

spritehide

Enter 6 for 'a' and click OK

We see that the program runs without errors.

Type clear command and Run to clean the canvas.

$radian=(pi/180)*$degree

degree=ask "enter an angle value and click OK"

$radian=(pi/180)*$degree

go 50,50

print "Value in radians is"+ " " +$radian

spritehide

Pause the tutorial and type the program your into KTurtle editor

Resume the tutorial after typing the program.

Complier shows the following error,

you cannot put “=” here

$degree=ask "enter an angle value and click OK"

$radian=(pi/180)*$degree

go 50,50

print "Value in radians is"+ " " +$radian

spritehide

Enter 45 for angle value and click OK

Program runs without errors.

$degree=ask "enter an angle value and click OK

$radian=(pi/180)*$degree

go 50,50

print "Value in radians is"+ " " +$radian

spritehide

Complier shows the following error,

text string was not properly closed, expected a double quote “ ” to close the string.

$degree=ask "enter an angle value and click OK"

$radian=(pi/180)*$degree

go 50,50

print "Value in radians is"+ " " +$radian

spritehide

I will copy the program from text editor and paste it into Kturtle Editor

Enter 45 for angle value and click OK.

Program runs without errors.

This way you can find the line at which error has occured, and correct it.

Runtime errors

It may crash the program when you run it.

Runtime errors are commonly due to wrong input from the user.

Compiler cannnot find these errors.

For example:

• Trying to multiply or divide by a variable that contains no value.

• Run a loop without a terminating condition or increment value.

Type clear command and Run to clean the canvas.

This program divides two numbers.

'a' is dividend and 'r' is divisor.

$a=ask "enter a number for 'a' and click Ok"'

$r = ask "enter a number for 'r' and click OK"

$d=$a/$r

print $d

I will copy the program into Kturtle Editor.

Pause the tutorial and type the program into your KTurtle editor

Resume the tutorial after typing the program.

Complier does not show any error.

Let's enter 5 for 'a' and click OK

enter 0 for 'r' and click OK

Here we get a runtime error,

“ you tried to divide by zero”

Let's enter 5 for 'a' and click OK

enter 2 for 'r' and click OK

Program without errors.

Type clear command and Run to clean the canvas.

For example,

Assigning a value to the wrong variable.

Multiplying two numbers instead of adding.

$x=30

message"In while loop, code inside the loop repeats till boolean

evaluates false"

while $x>20 {

$x=$x+1

fontsize 15

forward 20

print $x }

Pause the tutorial and type the program into your KTurtle editor

Resume the tutorial after typing the program.

A dilog box pops-up let's click OK.

Loop goes into an infinite loop.

This is a logical error.

In this “while” condition x is greater than 20,

but the variable x is always greater than 20

So the loop never terminates.

$x=30

message"In while loop, code inside the loop repeats till boolean evaluates false"

while $x>20 {

'$x=$x-1'

fontsize 15

forward 20

print $x }

A dilog box pop-up let's click OK.

Loop terminates after printing values from 29 to 20.

Let us summarise.

Summary

• Use of variable that has not been declared.

• Missing quotes in strings.

• Errors related to print command

• Runtime errors

• Logical errors

Assignment

$x=3

$y=3

if $x==$y

print"they are equal"

else {

print "they are not equal"}

reset

$x=ask "enter value for x and click Ok"

$y = ask "enter value for y and click Ok"

$g =sqrt ($x*$y)

print "Geometric mean is ="+

learn sum $x {

{$r=0

for $i= 1 to $x{

return $r}

}

print

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