The coin-tossing robot: statement

You have to create a program that enables the coin-tossing robot to work properly.

The robot has to toss a single coin into the air, catch it and then display whether it sees head or tail.

To do this, you have a number of commands at your disposal that the robot understands:

• Basic action instructions
• Tosses the coin in the air which makes the robot perform this action
• Catch the coin ditto
• Display "Tail
• Display "Head
• A check (Tail ?) that will return either a True or a False result depending on which side is visible after catching the coin and how you construct the condition (more details in the Help)
• A control structure:
• The conditional structure (IF, THEN, ELSE and END IF)

Your program (code) should be created by dragging the various elements from the "shoe" on the right to the magnetic board on the left. The few basic rules for arranging the various elements (syntax rules) are explained in the "Help" section.

The code you create will be considered correct if the 2 runtime tests are successful together (the corresponding buttons have all turned green).

Good work and good success.

Never forget that mistakes are more instructive than successes,
as long as you take the trouble to understand the causes.

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The coin-thossing robot: help

Building your program code

All you have to do is drag the various elements provided in the "shoe" and arrange them in the right order on the magnetic board on the left of the screen. You can always move the elements in this way if you want to change your code. There is no set order for composing your code; you can start at the end but, in the end, your program will have to comply with the layout rules (syntax rules) defined below.

Syntax rules

By convention, the following elements must stand alone on their lines of code: - Basic action instructions; - The "ELSE"; - The "END IF"; - The "REPEAT" (later); - And the "END WHILE" (later).

Condition structure

To check which side of the coin is visible when it is caught, you can construct a condition as follows. For line 1, if the face-up side is "Tail", the result will be "True". If the face-up side is "Head", the result will be "False". For line 2 (later), it's the other way round. Note that the "IF", the Check and the "THEN" have to be in the same line.

Tricks and tips

Before	After clicking on number 2
Clicking on a line number in the magnetic board will free up that line so that a code element can be inserted.

To remove an item from the magnetic panel, simply place it on the bin and it will disappear the next time you click on the "Organize" button.

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