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Logo Interpreter

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Nice. This seems like a great tool to teach kids how to program and explore "Turtle Geometry"[1] and L-Systems[2].

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/turtle-geometry

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system

We learned Logo using the turtle robot at primary school (this is going back over 20 years) and thinking about it, that was actually my first exposure to programming.

Does anyone know if you can still get those turtle robots now? I'm guessing they'd be long out of manufacture, but would love to own one and would love to introduce programming to my kids using it.

http://www.bee-bot.us/probot.html

In my country Costa Rica Logo was taught in primary schools and It was a lot of fun. It was indeed the first time I coded something when I was eight.

Same in Italy, at least for me about 20 years ago. Glad to see it on the web now!

Tico here (I thought it was only me), I almost teared up when I saw it

China here, also dated back 15 years.

I remember playing with Logo 18 years ago too. My 7th grade students just had their second day of Python, after working with Scratch during 6th grade. Turtle is part of the Python standard library--makes for an easy transition. If you're interested in educational technology and haven't read Papert's Mindstorms, it's inspiring.

This is pretty cool. I might actually get back into it for fun sometime.

Logo is one of the main reasons I found an interest in programming as a kid. Probably wouldn't be on the same path if I hadn't worked with it ~9 years ago.

Wow - I had completely forgotten about Logo. I just now realize that Logo was the first programming language I was ever exposed to, back in elementary (primary) school. If I remember right, we were using an Apple IIGS. Good times!

Same - in fact, it was the very first exposure to computers I had (a Microbee) and I was hooked. I've recently been hacking away at a logo interpreter based on the manual for Apple Logo II.

I've wanted to see a JS version of Logo for ages. Well done to the programmer who finally got around to doing it!

Now it just needs to be forked and adapted to match NetLogo[1] and I can run all those social sciences simulations without Java!

[1] https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

Neat! Logo is a wonderful, flexible language. I've written a few Logo interpreters myself. My most recent is packaged as a Java library and working it's way both into classroom tools and a puzzle/adventure game I'm developing around it: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/MLogo

I wish I could get a hold of Chris Hancock's Flogo and Flogo 2 languages (done at MIT with Logo creator Seymour Papert). But alas, I can just read about them in his thesis.

http://www.logointerpreter.com

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