Re: LOGO-L> Language vs Visual

[George Mills <mills@softronix.com>]

You can build projects like these and run them over the internet
with MMLogic or MSWLogo. The closest thing to doing it like the
original pioneers and communicate accross the globe in real time.

I'm amazed how little interest there has been in networking projects
given how much we all use it. It's quite a thrill communicating in
real time. MMLogic is a little easier to grasp and more flexible than
MSWLogo is at the moment.

Doing a morse code project would be analogous to "Hello World" in
Networking projects. Note however that the "Internet" is a little
bursty. To solve this you might send a "time stamp" along with your
data and play the Dih or Dah at the appropriate time.

Lots of interesting problems to solve when you start networking.

If you have questions on how to setup your networking just yell.

Marian B Rosen wrote:
> 
> > > With morse, there are more than just two characters. There is a short tone
> > > and a long one representing the did and the dah. There are also
> > > corresponding short and long periods of silence which delineate letters and
> > > words. Just try to teach a machine to read morse without taking these silent
> > > periods into consideration!
> > > Tom
> > ...this problem makes a terrific project with legoLogo
> > Jeff
> 
> We did that once when I was working with older kids at the Junior High.
> The kids built a little flat tunnel with two lights at one end
> connecting to computer A and two sensors at the other end connected to
> Computer B.  You typed the message in at Computer A and the words
> appeared on the screen of Computer B.  The first light flashed short and
> long flashes of light to represent dot and dash.  The second light
> flashed short and long flashes representing the short space between
> words and the longer space at the end of sentences.  (LEGO-Logo later
> made our machine into one of their idea cards.)
> 
> We never thought about the linguistic importance of it all and in our
> minds Computer B couldn't really "read"; it could just "decode".  But,
> now you have me wondering whether we, as humans could have understood
> the messages on Computer B's screen if it had no spacing.  Also I'm
> wondering about messages of different levels of comlexity -- when would
> a literate adult wimp out?  when would a first grader be lost?  is there
> an age at which this becomes more or less possible?  etc.  I think I'll
> take a couple of sentences  of unpunctuated, unspaced words and give it
> to different age kids as a puzzler next year and see what happens.  At
> the very least such an exercise MIGHT convince kids of the need for
> punctuation and spacing.  Anybody got an idea of what a "fair" sentence
> or two would be?
> 
> Marian Rosen
> Instructional Technology Coordinator
> Ladue Schools, St. Louis, MO 63121
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