[Gllug] Logo as a first language

[David Abbishaw]

Rich,

Can you supply more details about the Lego kit, a friend of mines been
looking for something like this for his son.

Thanks
David


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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:15:39 +0000
From: Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Logo as a first language
To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:44:29PM +0000, John Southern wrote:
> Does anyone remember logo? Not icons, but the programming language.
>
> Having collected my youngest from school, I find that as a four year 
> old, she is being taught how to program a Roamer turtle 'bot in logo.

I'm surprised.  A friend of mine has children who are learning robotics at
school and they're using some sort of proprietary Lego kit and language.

> Also what would be the idea programming language you would learn if 
> you had to start all over again today?

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_programming_language

Rich.


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