Re: LOGO-L> Language vs Visual

[George Mills <mills@softronix.com>]

Hope you don't mind my posting your reply.

Das Menon wrote:
> 
> At 12:49 PM 7/20/97 -0400, George Mills wrote:
> >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.
> >
> 
>         Deleted
> 
> >If you have questions on how to setup your networking just yell.
> 
> Hello George,
> 
> Perhaps you can contribute a series of articles (assuming you have the time)
> on some of these extended capabilities of MSWLogo and MMLogic?
> 

If I could only stop time for about 5 years while I catch up on
everything
I'd like to do.

I have often made suggestions and posted snippets of code for projects
(see the logo-l archive [link available on MSWLogo web page]).
My favorite is the "heat plate" one (now included in the MSWLogo kit).
The simple "looking at your neighbor" type algorithm is used for so many
things. You can use it for morphing, smoothing, heat propagation etc.

I recently announced a sprite animation example to the web page and
later
incorpoarted it into MSWLogo.

And of course both MMLogic and MSWLogo include very simple networking
examples.

Note that most of my examples are fairly simple. They are designed to
cover
a specific problem and not make the example complex and obscure what
it's
trying to show. Complex examples are fun to run and show off what can be
done but most users don't rip them apart and learn from them.

As you already know examples are not everything, you need organized
lessons.

Jim Muller's books are great source.

Clive Maxfield (an Electronic Data News writer) is publishing a book
that covers MMLogic that should be available soon. I have not seen it
myself yet.

I'd love to see your lessons when your done, I'd be happy to provide
a link to them if you make them available on the web.

>
> Regards...Das
> 
> ps.     I just started exploring MMLogic. I am trying to set up a series of
> lessons so that my two
>          daughters can comprehend logic circuits, Boolean Algebra etc in as
> simple a way as
>         possible. Playing around with MMLogic brings back some of the things
> that I used to do
>         while designing a 'calculator' based on TTL gates I did some twenty
> years back.

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