[Gllug] Logo as a first language

[Pete Ryland]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:14:16 -0000, David Abbishaw wrote:
> Rich,
> 
> Can you supply more details about the Lego kit, a friend of mines been
> looking for something like this for his son.

He's likely talking about Lego Mindstorms.[1]  They have an "RCX brick"
which will connect via infrared to a PC running Windows and are programmed
to read sensors and control motors and lights and such with a graphical (and
really simple) programming language.  Alternatively, you can replace the ROM
on the brick with one that runs more sane languages.[2]

Previously, Rich wrote:
> Miranda's a rather elegant teaching language.  Unfortunately the only
> implementation is non-free.  So I'd vote for (a sane subset of) OCaml
> instead.

Haskell is almost identical to Miranda, and equally good, if not better, as
a teaching language.

Pete

[1] http://mindstorms.lego.com/
[2] http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=mindstorms
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