Fw: Re: [seul-edu] programming courses for 6 th grades

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> From: William Kendrick <nbs@bolt.sonic.net>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] programming courses for 6 th grades
> 
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:43:56PM -0500, Dave Prentice wrote:
> > I've never fooled with Logo. Is there a Linux version?
> 
> <plug>
> 
> I actually created a programmable Turtle Graphics language that
> works over the web.
> 
> Better yet, it runs as a CGI (so it can run on even the lowliest
> and slowest web browsers).  No Java is used.  It's a language of my
> own design.  It remembles a line-number-less BASIC and uses all
> global variables, but you can create procedures, and it's kinda fun
> to use! :)
> 
>   http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/webturtle/
> 
> </plug>
> 
> 
> As for an actual, honest-to-goodness "Logo" for Linux,
> Freshmeat came up with this:
> 
>   ucblogo
> 
>   "Berkely Logo (ucblogo) is an interpreter for the Logo programming language.
>   Logo is a computer programming language designed for use by learners,
>   including children.  This dialect of Logo features random-access arrays,
>   variable number of inputs to user-defined procedures, various error
>   handling improvements, comments and continuation lines, first-class
>   instruction and expression templates, and macros."
> 
>   Home page: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/
> 
> 
> Enjoy! :)
> 
> 
> -bill!
> 
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