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was reading /. post on "How Should I Teach a Basic Programming Course?" and these 2 websites appeared in the comments:
- Scratch by MIT
- Computer Science Unplugged by University of Canterbury in Christchurch New Zealand
the chance of me teaching programming is probably next to zero, but thought it'll be good to store these 2 interesting links in the storeroom. who knows when it'll come in useful ;)
in the midst of writing a (next-to-meaningless) term paper and my mind drifted off (not surprising) and the word "Logo" came to mind.
gotten this off wikipedia:
Logo is a computer programming language used for functional programming. It is an easier to read adaptation and dialect of the Lisp language; some have called it "Lisp without the parentheses." It was created for educational use, more so for constructivist teaching, by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Today, it is known mainly for its "turtle graphics", but it also has significant facilities for handling lists, files, I/O, and recursion. Logo can be used to teach most computer science concepts, as UC Berkeley Lecturer Brian Harvey does in his "Computer Science Logo Style" trilogy.
here's a sample of logo's code.
to get a copy of the berkeley's logo, visit Brian Harvey's home page or George Mills' MSWLogo page.
