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No love for Logo? I currently have my kids experimenting with ucbLogo and FMSLogo. And one of our latest endeavors is to hook it up to Minecraft [1], but that

No love for Logo? I currently have my kids experimenting with ucbLogo and FMSLogo. And one of our latest endeavors is to hook it up to Minecraft [1], but that is certainly quite convoluted, with having to run minecraft servers with various plugins, and then working around the borked networking capabilities of FMSLogo, etc.. I wonder what other simple approaches there are to programmatically control Minecraft. [1]http://www.stuffaboutcode.com/2014/05/minecraft-graphics-turtle.html http://www.stuffaboutcode.com/2014/05/minecraft-graphics-tur...

nomercy400 10y ago
There should be more love for Logo. Very simple, very interactive, even without minecraft.
j_s 10y ago
TeachCraft (Python) discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11599714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11599714
Filligree 10y ago
OpenComputers is pretty nice, but involves writing Lua code. It features a virtual UNIX-ish OS to put your programs in, including editors; in many ways it's like stepping twenty years back in time. Electrical Age doesn't have computers. (Yet; I'm working on a PDP-11 simulation.) But it does have a functional DC electricity simulation, and "signal processors" that let you do amazing things with simple functions, as well as OC integration. If you're interested, I could show you around the setup on my dev server. (Or you could join. High quality players are always welcome. And of course we've got both mods, if you want to experiment... :)
6stringmerc 10y ago
That's what I was missing! Lots of love for Logo here. Started with that first, then eventually to QBasic. There was a lot of time spent on KidPix for a while too. That thing was insane.
acomjean 10y ago
I learned through logo in middle school. A language sophisticated enough to later (high school) write programs that would take equations and graph them. Plus who doesn't love writing software to create spirograph graphics.
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  I come back to Logo probably once every 2 years, for about 15 years now. First used it in primary (elementary) school but never really progressed past spirographs. I think I'll fire it up again this weekend - any hints?
  - GregBuchholz 10y ago
    Something more than a weekend splurge: Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics http://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Geometry-Mathematics-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/0262510375/ http://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Geometry-Mathematics-Artificial... ...and I've not yet tried it, but netlogo sounds interesting. https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
    - voltagex_ 10y ago
      Offtopic: That netlogo site presents what appears to be an Internet2 cert signed by "InCommon RSA Server CA". It's untrusted by Firefox 45.0.2.
    - voltagex_ 10y ago
      Turtle Geometry book as a "borrowable" ePub (DRM). https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3267302W/Turtle_geometry https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3267302W/Turtle_geometry
  - acomjean 10y ago
    I haven't used it years unfortunetly. Fractals where fun in logo. Making coastlines was always fun too.

nomercy400 10y ago

There should be more love for Logo. Very simple, very interactive, even without minecraft.

j_s 10y ago

TeachCraft (Python) discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11599714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11599714

Filligree 10y ago

OpenComputers is pretty nice, but involves writing Lua code. It features a virtual UNIX-ish OS to put your programs in, including editors; in many ways it's like stepping twenty years back in time. Electrical Age doesn't have computers. (Yet; I'm working on a PDP-11 simulation.) But it does have a functional DC electricity simulation, and "signal processors" that let you do amazing things with simple functions, as well as OC integration. If you're interested, I could show you around the setup on my dev server. (Or you could join. High quality players are always welcome. And of course we've got both mods, if you want to experiment... :)

6stringmerc 10y ago

That's what I was missing! Lots of love for Logo here. Started with that first, then eventually to QBasic. There was a lot of time spent on KidPix for a while too. That thing was insane.

acomjean 10y ago

I learned through logo in middle school. A language sophisticated enough to later (high school) write programs that would take equations and graph them. Plus who doesn't love writing software to create spirograph graphics.

voltagex_ 10y ago
I come back to Logo probably once every 2 years, for about 15 years now. First used it in primary (elementary) school but never really progressed past spirographs. I think I'll fire it up again this weekend - any hints?
- GregBuchholz 10y ago
  Something more than a weekend splurge: Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics http://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Geometry-Mathematics-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/0262510375/ http://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Geometry-Mathematics-Artificial... ...and I've not yet tried it, but netlogo sounds interesting. https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    Offtopic: That netlogo site presents what appears to be an Internet2 cert signed by "InCommon RSA Server CA". It's untrusted by Firefox 45.0.2.
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    Turtle Geometry book as a "borrowable" ePub (DRM). https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3267302W/Turtle_geometry https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3267302W/Turtle_geometry
- acomjean 10y ago
  I haven't used it years unfortunetly. Fractals where fun in logo. Making coastlines was always fun too.