Some years ago I wrote a small book: "LOGO Physics", Holt, Reinhardt and Winston
It was intended to provide a workbook for students of LOGO, to advance their LOGO skills and allow them to learn a little physics on the side. Once they tire of drawing polygons, perhaps they would like to draw a planetary orbit based on Newton's laws of motion.
Later, after I had discovered HC, I translated the book into HyperTalk, which I felt was much better suited to beginning students. LOGO was a LISP derivative, and, while list processing is well suited to artificial intelligence, it is not the best language for beginning students.
I have made a few minor changes to make it more suitable to RunRev, and put a copy of this MS Word file on my web site:
http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/
(Look for "Programming") Caveat: It has not been class tested or even proof read.
This is not a challenge to Dan's book, or any book intended to teach the fundamentals of programming. It is intended to be used in an Advanced Placement course in High School for science students--a course which doesn't exist. It is not appropriate for students interested in Computer Science. It is the kind of programming that scientists use, i.e. light on theory, heavy on whatever-works.
I do think the use of Turtle Graphics would be a useful addendum to a high school programming course. The student gets instant gratification in graphic format, and offers a change of pace to text processing.
I believe there may be a Turtle Graphics tutorial in the works at RunRev.
Jim
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