The Logo programming language and turtle graphics gave some users their first experience of controlling something on a computer display.

For instance, the idea of turtle graphics is also useful in Lindenmayer system for generating fractals.

Logo is known for its introduction of turtle graphics to elementary schoolchildren in the 1980s.

KTurtle - Educational programming environment using turtle graphics.

KTurtle is an educational programming environment for turtle graphics.

Papert's daughter, Artemis, has been using turtle graphics to explore the relationship between art and algorithm.

The ideas behind turtle graphics can be extended to include three-dimensional space.

For example, the program Fractint uses turtle graphics (similar to those in the Logo programming language) to produce screen images.

This string can be drawn as an image by using turtle graphics, where each symbol is assigned a graphical operation for the turtle to perform.

Spinnaker sought to improve on the educational value of Logo, an earlier educational programming language that could also program turtle graphics.