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Interesting Logo Site: Elica

It's been a long while since I've looked at Logo. Somehow I ended up here. Logo is often considered only a toy language. But, while it doesn't have the expressiveness of it's closest cousins Scheme and Lisp, simplicity has it's place.

In primary/secondary education, Squeak Smalltalk seems to be taking away the Logo mindshare (at least it seems this way). Is this true?

By Todd Coram at 2005-11-28 18:32 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 8168 reads

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Be sure to read Brian Harvey's Logo books

Here. All three are online. These are some of the best programming texts available, regardless of language.

I agree that Squeak is the new language for elementary education (in the U.S. at least), but beware: often "Squeak" is synonymous with "the pre-built e-toys that come with Squeak." They don't involve any Smalltalk proper.

By James Hague at Mon, 2005-11-28 21:19 | login or register to post comments

Brian Harvey's Books

Yes, they are very good books. I like his informal writing style. Very approachable.

By Todd Coram at Tue, 2005-11-29 00:27 | login or register to post comments