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I'm not a big fan of LOGO either. Drawing lines gets boring quickly. I'm reminded of picking a university. I went to two introductory CS courses. One had us

by mdemare 19y ago

I'm not a big fan of LOGO either. Drawing lines gets boring quickly. I'm reminded of picking a university. I went to two introductory CS courses. One had us drawing Mickey Mouse in Pascal on a old Mac, which gave me a deep hatred of Apple that lasted until I discovered OSX. The other was an introduction to MINIX. And the end, we all received a disk with MINIX on it. I didn't even know at the time that there were alternatives to MS-DOS, and was deeply impressed. Moral: Don't be condescending to kids - it's better to overestimate them. And LOGO is a condescending language.

Shorel 19y ago
No, it is not. Some LOGO books are, but the language is not. I tried reading 'Turtle Geometry' when I was young. Some parts are like University Maths. In fact, all of it is very strict in the mathematical sense. And all is based on LOGO. For someone in high school who had no idea of trigonometry, it was mind blowing.