Teaching the kids Logo

August 6th, 2008

After yesterdays post about when I learnt to program, I realised my children are older than I was, and have yet to learn the art!  While sharing this with Michaela, I decided Logo was the trick.

It’s visual, so your see your creations, yet accessible/simple.  It exposes concepts like iteration, sequential steps and variables.

XLogo screenshotAfter some searching for a native Mac logo I found XLogo.

I spent a few hours playing, relearning the syntax and making squiggly line shapes.

Really looking forward to introducing the children to it in the weekend.

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