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Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics (IBM PC) (1983)
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Re: Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics (IBM PC) (1983)
#12I learned how to program in Logo at the age of 8, using the turtle.
I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is.
While I have never worked as a professional software developer, computers have been a hobby all my life. I don't think the fact that the language I have mostly written code in in recent years is Emacs Lisp is unrelated to the above moment.
Re: Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics (IBM PC) (1983)
#13I did a summer school/camp program at my local HS when i was about maybe 10 or 11 where we learned logo on apple //s, they even had a could of turtle robots that were controlled via, i assume, the serial port. So by the end we all got to send one of our programs to the bot to draw out in sharpie on a big roll of craft paper. I'm sure in my parents attic somewhere there it's probably still rolled up in a box. Love the…
For their ancestors, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grey_Walter#Robots
Re: Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics (IBM PC) (1983)
#14I used turtle in middle school. I think that was my first experience where I got to tell a computer what to do and make something. We had a very limited amount of time in the lab, but I loved every bit if it!
Re: Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics (IBM PC) (1983)
#15I'm so nostalgic for 1980s manuals that describe the purpose of everything from the ground up, like taking six pages to explain the keyboard.
Re: Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics (IBM PC) (1983)
#16I wrote a LOGO program to tile the screen on the Apple IIe in my elementary school with hexagons when I was 7. It's been downhill ever since.
Re: Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics (IBM PC) (1983)
#17There is a logo implementation that runs in libreoffice: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/libre...
Re: Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics (IBM PC) (1983)
#18Related: check this post.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13264041
It's about the IBM PC Jr., which I had, and on which I wrote a lot of hobbyist code.
Mostly in the built-in BASIC, but some in Logo too (which I did not mention in the post). Logo came with the Jr. It was fun to program in.
The post also links to Mike Brutman's PC Jr. page, a retrocomputing site.
I has emailed with him about our common interest in the Jr.
Re: Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics (IBM PC) (1983)
#19My first proglang, at age 7, was MSX-LOGO. English is not my first language, but this language was translated to my mother tongue, and came with an instruction book in my mother tongue. So I could get started, all by myself, at a rather young age. After getting the fundamentals down in MSX-LOGO, I learned BASIC and some part of English at the same time: learning BASIC made learning English fun. This was before I had…
Very cool. Thank you for creating it and thank you for sharing the story.
Re: Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics (IBM PC) (1983)
#20My partner and I develop a modern version of Logo called turtleSpaces. It uses a vastly expanded version of LCSI Logo from the Apple II: