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.

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 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 …

Karel is a simple robot and only responds to four commands: they can move forward, turn left, put down a beeper or pick up a beeper. In addition, Karel is able to check state of the area around …

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 …

Karel is a simple programming language and educational tool designed to teach fundamental programming concepts. It uses a virtual robot that performs specific tasks based on user …

That robot was named Karel, after the Czech playwright Karel Čapek whose 1923 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) gave the word robot to the English language. Karel was quite a …

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. Pattis used the …

Learn to program with Karel the Robot, a simple agent that can move, turn, and pick up and put down objects in a grid world.

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 …