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Re: LOGO-L> Logo on the Web?



JENEVOLD@aol.com
Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:33:52 -0500

>A group of us at the MIT Media Lab is working on a project very
>similar to the one suggested by Jonathan Smith. That is, we're making
>a version of Logo for the Web. We call it Cocoa, since it is intended
>to be a type of "Java for kids". The goal is to enable kids to create
>their own dynamic web pages, full of animations, simulations, etc.

Hurray! I've been wondering about this, and hoping it could happen. I'm
curious whether people who understand these things better than I also suspect
this could greatly expand the use and popularity of Logo. (My selfish motive
is that I will then feel publicly vindicated in my persistence in teaching
Logo to my students.) I can't wait.

Julie Enevoldsen
jenevold@aol.com
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