Re: [seul-edu] programming courses for 6 th grades

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Dave Prentice wrote:
Dave, Dave, Dave, don't you pore fastidiously over our software page?  There's glogo, which is (I believe) a graphic front end to UCBlogo for Linux.  And while we're at it, why hasn't anyone mentioned Tcl/Tk as something for these kids to learn?
> 
> I've never fooled with Logo. Is there a Linux version?
> Dave Prentice
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> -----Original Message-----
>     From: Les Richardson <richl@mail.tfsd.sk.ca>
>     To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
>     Date: Monday, June 11, 2001 1:37 PM
>     Subject: Re: [seul-edu] programming courses for 6 th grades
>     
>     
>     I would suggest a more graphics oriented language like Logo, and deal only
>     with very limited control structures, perhaps focussing more on the Turtle
>     Graphics aspect, and less of the list processing capabilities. We don't
>     want to turn this into an intelligence test.....
>     
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