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What mystifies me is back in the 80s there was a relatively successful amount of programming at school using mainly Logo but also BBC Basic (which doesn't suck

What mystifies me is back in the 80s there was a relatively successful amount of programming at school using mainly Logo but also BBC Basic (which doesn't suck nearly as much as other basics). The real tragedy is Logo fell out of favour so quickly for no particular reason.

meaty 14y ago
Well logo didn't really have much potential other than for drawing stuff with a turtle. This wasn't because it wasn't capable of glorious things (which it was) but more that it was hard for the staff to understand compared to BBC BASIC.
oftenwrong 14y ago
I did Logo programming in elementary school around 1997/1998 using MicroWorlds on the Mac.
Zenst 14y ago
at high school we got taught CECIL and basic and touched upon a the other languages and there feild of usage. Also taught the history part as well. Had a 380z research machine, BBC micro in the final year and also access to a 2903 ICL mainframe running george over a 300buad acoustic coupler and then would take upto an hour to get a good connection. Sometime later computer studies got turned into a secratary skills on a computer and called ICT. Logo was great and in some way we still have it at toy level with the various programable toys via mobile phones and let us not forget we still have bigtrax. Though Lego are doing things now we could only dream of as children. Computer back then also came with a programming language interface, nowadays that is a optional extra sadly and is akin to a generation knowing how to drive and how a engine worked so they could identify a fault and fix it to those that can just drive.
- meaty 14y ago
  Nice - I remember the 380z. Had a bus which was a simple IDC ribbon cable, weighed a ton and sort of barely coped with CP/M.
  - Zenst 14y ago
    Yip they were well built. Apparently if you entered the front panel (ctrl+F iirc you got a hex debugger) you could single step thru the machine code, now if your did that for the graphic panel part you could blow the screen -- luckily this did not get learned from expereience.

meaty 14y ago

Well logo didn't really have much potential other than for drawing stuff with a turtle. This wasn't because it wasn't capable of glorious things (which it was) but more that it was hard for the staff to understand compared to BBC BASIC.

oftenwrong 14y ago

I did Logo programming in elementary school around 1997/1998 using MicroWorlds on the Mac.

Zenst 14y ago

at high school we got taught CECIL and basic and touched upon a the other languages and there feild of usage. Also taught the history part as well. Had a 380z research machine, BBC micro in the final year and also access to a 2903 ICL mainframe running george over a 300buad acoustic coupler and then would take upto an hour to get a good connection. Sometime later computer studies got turned into a secratary skills on a computer and called ICT. Logo was great and in some way we still have it at toy level with the various programable toys via mobile phones and let us not forget we still have bigtrax. Though Lego are doing things now we could only dream of as children. Computer back then also came with a programming language interface, nowadays that is a optional extra sadly and is akin to a generation knowing how to drive and how a engine worked so they could identify a fault and fix it to those that can just drive.

meaty 14y ago
Nice - I remember the 380z. Had a bus which was a simple IDC ribbon cable, weighed a ton and sort of barely coped with CP/M.
- Zenst 14y ago
  Yip they were well built. Apparently if you entered the front panel (ctrl+F iirc you got a hex debugger) you could single step thru the machine code, now if your did that for the graphic panel part you could blow the screen -- luckily this did not get learned from expereience.