Rediscovering Logo with Bob the Turtle
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Rediscovering Logo with Bob the Turtle
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Re: Rediscovering Logo with Bob the Turtle
#2I learned logo initially in middle school in the 70s. (Even got to demo it for the local art museum’s “festival of the future”)
But in high school I took another programming class and learned a lot of programing concepts with Mac logo. Recursion and drawing fractals and graphing equations.
While I appreciate the logo turtle moving syntax, it’s weird seeing it in python. Though I wonder if logo still exists, I’ll search for that.
Re: Rediscovering Logo with Bob the Turtle
#3I learned logo initially in middle school in the 70s. (Even got to demo it for the local art museum’s “festival of the future”) But in high school I took another programming class and learned a lot of programing concepts with Mac logo. Recursion and drawing fractals and graphing equations. While I appreciate the logo turtle moving syntax, it’s weird seeing it in python. Though I wonder if logo still exists, I’ll sear…
Yeah I hear you about the Python syntax. When I was making my turtle graphics language for kids, SeaTurtle[0], I thought about just quitting when I found out about the Python turtle module. But then I figured out that a big part of the beauty of Logo for the littlest of kids was the dead simple syntax. Having even simpler syntax than Python is a win for Logos or Logo clones. It's really the only reason to start a kid on them instead of a "real" programming language.
Re: Rediscovering Logo with Bob the Turtle
#4A library for Python is not Logo. Logo is more of a cut-down Lisp, and some very remarkable things can be written in it:
http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v1-toc2.html
That said, Python with the turtle library is still a great way to show kids programming. I did this with my nephew a while back, and now he's started on his next project: a robot car controlled by a Raspberry Pi.
Re: Rediscovering Logo with Bob the Turtle
#5This has nothing to do with Logo, the programming language. It's Python all the way down.
Re: Rediscovering Logo with Bob the Turtle
#6Re: Rediscovering Logo with Bob the Turtle
#7I learned logo initially in middle school in the 70s. (Even got to demo it for the local art museum’s “festival of the future”) But in high school I took another programming class and learned a lot of programing concepts with Mac logo. Recursion and drawing fractals and graphing equations. While I appreciate the logo turtle moving syntax, it’s weird seeing it in python. Though I wonder if logo still exists, I’ll sear…
https://turtlespaces.org
https://lynxcoding.club
are two modern Logo interpreters (both are web-based)
Re: Rediscovering Logo with Bob the Turtle
#8While turtle graphics are a popular subset of the Logo programming language, the language itself features very comprehensive list handling and a friendly syntax that allows for command stacking and no whitespace requirements. So you're not really rediscovering Logo here.
Two modern, full-featured web-based Logo interpreters are: