Re: LOGO-L> dynamic programming projects and speed of MicroWorlds

[KERRB@Magill.UniSA.edu.au]

Jeff Richardson wrote:-

>George
>...rather than talk of 'winners', I'm interested in your rationale as a 
>designer; aside from the pragmatics of making your Logo congruent with 
>its OS, what are your reasons for giving a lower priority to Buttons, 
>Sliders, Shapes, DrawTools and similar features?

 This discussion has been interesting. For me MicroWorlds has the intuitive 
user interface (eg. the idea of a procedures page on the flip side like a real 
book is just one aspect that is easy to explain to kids) and easy to use tool 
pallete that is envisaged in Seymour Paperts later writings.

 On the other hand I was so impressed by Georges skill in producing a new 
MSWLogo version that could churn out an animated gif internally, etc.

 In the real world we know that the best designed product does not always 
capture the market or even survive. 

 What I would really like to know about is the capability of a small company 
like LCSI to quickly produce new products that can run in a world wide web 
environment. I recently saw a web product (only available on the mac as usual) 
on the LCSI site but the buttons only seemed to go to new pages, ie. no 
animations or special effects. Can LCSI produce a Windows product that runs 
fast enough on the web so that readers can see all the nifty design features of 
MicroWorlds? Isn't that what is required for survival, in the medium term, let 
alone expansion?
(I am making the not unreasonable assumption that the www is taking the world 
by storm and if you can't fit into that environment then you are in trouble).

 -- Bill Kerr

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