[Gllug] Logo as a first language

[Richard Jones]

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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