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by chasil 384 days ago
When I was younger, the "logo" computer language was well-regarded for education of the young.

It is now a JavaScript platform:

https://turtlespaces.org/

Historical background may be helpful:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

Smalltalk, as the founding language for object-oriented programming, was originally targeted at children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk

I don't think any operational versions still exist.

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There is a turtle graphics framework in the Python standard library: https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html

Pharo is a cross-platform implementation of the classic Smalltalk-80 programming language and runtime system: https://pharo.org/