Re: LOGO-L> Re: Computer Language for Kids ?

[gary mccallister <mccallis@mesa5.mesa.colorado.edu>]

     Moving a mobile robot (turtle) about in three dimensional space is 
not a trivial intermediate-technology type of problem (as evidence see 
the difficulties with the Mars rover).  Why should it be let go.  The 
problems to be solved are not all computer type problems, but they are 
real, difficult, and important.  If all one wishes to teach is 
programming then their is no role for robots and turtles.  But is one 
wishes to teach mechanics, electronics, information processing and 
transmission, sensor function, and scientific method, Turtles might well 
be far more important.  Of course, then Logo becomes only a piece of the 
whole.
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