Editing Karel (programming language) (section)

{{Short description|Programming language}}
{{Infobox programming language
|name = Karel the Robot
|logo = 
|screenshot = NikiExample.jpg
|screenshot size = 250px
|paradigm = [[procedural programming|procedural]]
|year = 1981
|designer = [[Richard E. Pattis]]
|developer = 
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|typing = 
|implementations = 
|dialects = [[Karel (programming language)#Variants and descendants|Some localized language variants]] 
|influenced_by = [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]]
|influenced = Karel++, [[AgentSheets]], [[Guido van Robot]]
}}

'''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 language in his courses at [[Stanford University]], [[California]]. The language is named after [[Karel Čapek]], a [[Czech people|Czech]] writer who introduced the word ''[[robot]]'' in his play [[R.U.R.]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://capek.misto.cz/english/robot.html |title=Who did actually invent the word 'robot' and what does it mean? |access-date=25 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727132806/http://capek.misto.cz/english/robot.html |archive-date=27 July 2013}}</ref><ref>[[Ivan Margolius|Margolius, Ivan]] (Autumn 2017) [https://czechfriends.net/images/RobotsMargoliusJul2017.pdf "The Robot of Prague"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911115134/https://czechfriends.net/images/RobotsMargoliusJul2017.pdf |date=11 September 2017 }} ''The Friends of Czech Heritage Newsletter'' no. 17, pp.3-6</ref>