LOGO Still Lives -- New Java-Based Version Released

farrellj writes "Many people were introduced to computer programming using a virtual turtle, or if you were lucky a robotic turtle. Created in the '60s by a bunch of people at MIT, including one of the formost experts on computer aided learning Seymour Papert, it gave a good grounding in programming in a day when BASIC and PASCAL were the only other easily available languages...I use to teach LOGO at a computer lab in Ottawa, but have lost touch with LOGO for many years. Today, a email appeared in my mailbox announcing a new release of LOGO called StarLOGO from MIT...wow...it is done in JAVA, and looks pretty snazzy. It runs on just about any platform, and I think that it again may be a great way to get young kids interested in programming. It took me about 2 minutes to get it running...just untar it, and run a shell script, and I had the enivronment up and running. In a couple more minutes, I was writing programs that created graphical displays that would look great at raves. So I guess it's for kids of all ages!"

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fp

[Anonymous Coward]

haha, fp! WOOHOO,this is fun - well not really. I feel ashamed.

JRE-1.1.8 of IBM has a bug of JIT after 20 months

[Anonymous Coward]

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joder slashdot ... of posted aborted!!!
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MIXING BUSINESS WITH LEATHER

[Anonymous Coward]

we like the boys with the bullet-proof vests

Ravers

[Anonymous Coward]

Ravers are members of the most ridiculous subculture ever. PLUR is a pretty damn stupid idea, and don't even get me started on dropping a bunch of X and then dancing around with glosticks, pacifiers, and yo-yos.

Ok modders, here is one funny that should be +1'ed

[TuringTest]

so mod up the parent.