Last night I was chatting to my girlfriend (who works as a CAD designer in textile industry) about Logo! Like the author of this post, Logo was my first languag

Last night I was chatting to my girlfriend (who works as a CAD designer in textile industry) about Logo! Like the author of this post, Logo was my first language, and I was really excited to draw squares and cubes and rocket ships, between the ages of 7 and 9. I had a lot of fun experimenting with the audio frequency generation as well, composing some basic songs (odetojoy, auclairdelalune, frerejaque). Years later, when I was 26, I got to use Logo again! I wanted to draw a time-proportional train map of Taiwan. The distance between each point on the map corresponds to the time it takes a local train to travel that far. It made more sense to do that in Logo than in any other language. So I rewrote a basic Logo implementation in JavaScript and called it TurtleSheet :) http://peterburk.github.io/tra/ http://peterburk.github.io/tra/ I hope that some teachers will see the potential of empowering kids, by giving them real-world data like public transport times, and getting some real designs out. If I saw something drawn by a 9 year old here on Hacker News, I'd definitely upvote it. (I don't support it as child labour, but if they like Logo and want to do something useful with it, that's one idea)