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So instead of reindeer, Santa's only hope is a turtle. Yes that's right, the turtle-powered Logo programming language, developed in 1967 mostly at MIT.
As I remember it, LOGO was a triangular turtle that roamed across the monochrome screen of an Apple II in my first grade classroom. Wherever he went, a line of ink would follow him -- it came from ...
Although the LOGO programming language allowed for some lengthy instructions for the turtle, it was limited. Alice, on the other hand, uses the animation environment to teach amazingly complex ...
Created by MIT, the Logo Turtle was a three-wheeled machine used to help teach the Logo Programming Language. Children could direct the Turtle, which resembled a moving dome, by inputting computer ...
This is very similar to the LOGO programming language with and turtle graphics and nearly identical to the Roamer LOGO robot. To control the Big Trak, [Nathan] upgraded the electronics to a ...
It is, perhaps, most popular for its "turtle", basically a small triangle on the screen that you program to go left, right, or forward (you have to make a 180 to turn around).
[Seymour Papert] created one of the first turtle robots, seen at the left, in the 1980s. He even created the Logo programming language and adapted it for use with the turtle.
Seymour Papert, one of the creators of the Logo programming language and a significant influence behind One Laptop Per Child and Lego Mindstorms, died Sunday at home in Maine. He was 88.