My KidsRuby Journey

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KidsRuby is used to control a graphical turtle that draws shapes with explicit commands like turtle.draw, do-loops and angles (turn left 90), change pen color (coral) and background (blue violet), and motion commands (turn rate 40, backward 30), so the demo actually produces squares, circles with spokes and crosses. The environment shows alert vs pudding behavior for messages, runs on a plain PC, and inspires a real project called kider (Twitter for kids) plus plans for a local kid coding dojo.

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