LOGO

LOGO
/loh"goh/, n. Computers.
a high-level programming language widely used to teach children how to use computers.
[ < Gk lógos word (see LOGOS), sp. as if an acronym]

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      a computer programming language that originated in the late 1960s as a simplified LISP dialect for use in education; Seymour Papert and others used it at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to teach mathematical thinking to schoolchildren. It had a more conventional syntax than LISP and featured “turtle graphics,” a simple method for generating computer graphics. (The name came from an early project to program a turtlelike robot.) Turtle graphics used body-centred instructions, in which an object was moved around a screen by commands, such as “left 90” and “forward,” that specified actions relative to the current position and orientation of the object rather than in terms of a fixed framework. Together with recursive routines, this technique made it easy to program intricate and attractive patterns.

David Hemmendinger
 

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