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This is great. Now how can we put this in a kid friendly IDE so I can teach my daughter Lisp/Logo/Turtle Geometry? I am thinking of something like an IPython Notebook. I know there are lots of resources to teach kids to code, but many of them leave me feeling cold.

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DrRacket ships with turtle graphics: http://docs.racket-lang.org/turtles/Traditional_Turtles.html

I've had a good experience introducing DrRacket to early-elementary-aged kids; it's much more approachable than anything in Clojure-land.

Of course, for pre-typists you can't beat Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu

Thanks, Phil! Your post about Logo (http://technomancy.us/167) was definitely an inspiration for this project.

I hope that something in Clojure can be made to be as effective as DrRacket has been for you.

Maybe you can look at https://turtle.sugarlabs.org/ (and some background on it http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art ). It exports to Logo.

If you really want just typing, there are a few LOGO implementation in browser, see http://logo.twentygototen.org/ http://www.calormen.com/jslogo/

if you want to use iPython, have you looked at http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-dev/2014-April/01372... ?

I love the jslogo site!

Maybe try to use it with Gorilla REPL http://gorilla-repl.org/ , it's like IPython Notebook.

Have you tried

ucbLogo https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html

or FMS Logo http://fmslogo.sourceforge.net/

...no IDE, but there is a REPL. As for resources you might like to investigate:

http://fmslogo.sourceforge.net/workshop/

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