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by clan 2906 days ago
I do not get why Logo went out of fashion. To me it is the king among learners.

The physicality of the Logo turtle robot we had at our school back in the eighties was what made it "click" for me. Playing with something connected to the real world takes it to another level.
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kbouck 2906 days ago
Logo evolved into modern-day Scratch, which is included with the pi (raspbian).

http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/history...

http://www.elica.net/download/papers/LogoTreeProject.pdf

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clan 2906 days ago
Scratch is really great - do not get me wrong! But I find it too advanced. They do support various external hardware. And I can highly recommend the Make lock mbot. Truly awesome.

But Scratch is one step up the ladder to me. It is a commitment to an eco-system and a super nice but blank canvas.

I find Logo to be simpler and more limited. This is a "good thing"(tm) when getting kids hooked. The first hit should always be free :-)

I have gotten some of my non-technical friends to buy mbots. They like the idea but the learning curve was to steep for them.

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sokoloff 2906 days ago
There’s a subset of scratch that felt very logo like. My kids (5 and 7 at the time) readily picked it up.

Their hardest struggle was dragging the blocks around with the touchpad. It would have been less frustrating to have a keyboard-based interface I think. (Now that I type this, I realize maybe I should have tried a two button mouse for them.)

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watersb 2905 days ago
Logo is still available as a major mode of LibreOffice.
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