Teaching the Kids Logo

scottalanmiller

Has anyone used Logo with their kids? Logo was the language for getting little kids into programming in the 1980s. I missed the Logo years having gone to a private school where we had no computers. I was aware of Logo because I saw it on television and stuff about what other schools were doing.

Now I am trying to find good resources for my daughter and my first stop is KTurtle from the KDE project which I know from my days of heading IT for a private school circa 2004. I have that and a few other tools running on Linux Mint. I know that there are a lot of "Logo in the browser" tools available now too.

What have you found to be good?

scottalanmiller

Got this running in just a few seconds

reset
repeat 12 {
  repeat 4 {
    forward 60
    turnright 90
    }
  turnright 30
  }

scottalanmiller

And a great variation...

reset
repeat 12 {
  repeat 8 {
    forward 40
    turnright 60
    }
  turnright 30
  }

scottalanmiller

Here is a look at KTurtle itself with the IDE and Canvas visible.