ng@pur-phy (Nicholas J. Giordano) (07/26/88)
I have been getting interested in Logo, and would like to find a good reference on the language. Pointers to ANY good book would be much appreciated, but I am especially interested in finding a "definition" of the language, much as K&R provides "the" specification of C (at least prior to the ANSI standard). Many thanks in advance. Nick
ken@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) (07/29/88)
In article <1321@pur-phy> ng@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Nicholas J. Giordano) writes: > >I have been getting interested in Logo, and would like to find a good >reference on the language. Pointers to ANY good book would be much >appreciated, but I am especially interested in finding a "definition" >of the language, much as K&R provides "the" specification of C (at least >prior to the ANSI standard). > >Many thanks in advance. > >Nick There is no `standard' for Logo, and Seymour Papert, who has the copyright of the name, is quite happy for Logo to grow organically, with various different syntaxes available from various different manufacturers. However, since the manufacturer with the largest sale is LCSI, you could try a book like `Logo for the Apple 2' for a summary of their syntax. I happen to think RM Nimbus Logo's syntax is better, but that's because I wrote it. I think the best tests on the language and its use are the `Computer science Logo style' series by Brian Harvey, published by MIT Press. Harold Abelson and Andrea di Sessa's `Turtle geometry' is a close second and also superb reading. Logo is most widely used in schools, and there is an excellent literature on using Logo in schools. Two books that stand out are Allan Martin's `Learning and teaching with Logo' (publ. Croom Helm) and Ronnie Goldstein's `Making Logo work' (Basil Blackwell). There are also a lot of crappy books which never get beyond simple Turtle geometry and whose authors couldn't write a decent program to save their skins. There are two active user's groups, one in the U.S., the National Logo Exchange, run by people at the University of Oregon, and the other is the British Logo User Group, run by people in Walsall, UK. I don't know of any other Logo user groups in the E.E.C; I'd be interested to hear of any. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Ken Johnson (Half Man Half Bicycle) Address: AI Applications Institute, The University, EDINBURGH Phone: 031-225 4464 ext 212 Email: k.johnson@ed.ac.uk