> akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:44:53PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> >> >>>Can anyone suggest a book to help an elementry level child learn logo >>>with KTutle? I'm leaving a computer with FC4 and KTurtle installed for >>>my 9 year old bro, and would like to give him the opportunity to explore >>>Kturtle. >>> >>>Thanks >>> >>> >>Talking about being a day too late. Just yesterday I through out my >>Logo book since it had been out of fashion for so long. >> >> >> > I had posted this very question earlier, but originally the subject like > was "Book to teach KTurle" > >>It seems to me Harold Abelson and his daughter wrote a book on Logo. >> >>Searching for Logo programming on Amazons web site found several books >>but not may readily available. >> > I saw them, but most seemed targeted at adults. I was hoping for > something simple, and well written enough that a motivated child could > follow without assistance. > >>Logo was one the great ideas of the >>last century. We it went down in flames is beyond me. Do you know >>about the Lego constructions that could be controlled in Logo? >> >> > I heard about the Lego which was programmable, didn't realised it used > Logo. > Here's an interesting piece of trivia : the Lego Mindstorms product line was named after Seymour Papert's famous book "Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas". Seymour Papert was one of the inventors of the Logo computer language. Regards, Andrew. ===== Dapcourt Ltd., Oracle Applications Consultancy http://www.apps-experts.com
