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LOGO-L> Summary: Recommended Logo Texts




jstclair@omsd.cerf.fred.org
Thu, 1 Feb 96 22:53 pdt

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Date - Thu, 01 Feb 1996 12:37:23 +1100
To - jstclair@omsd
Subject - Summary: Recommended Logo Texts
Usenet: comp.lang.logo
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Hi all,

some time ago I asked about recommended logo texts in a special context.
Here is a summary of the replies I got.

Thanks to Brian Harvey, Kyle Watkins, Jim Muller, and Craig Duncan for
hints and to George Mills for maintaining the Logo Page on the Web.

cheers,

Bernd

I asked:

> I am looking for recommendations of logo books. The required text should
> be very compact and suitable for computer science students to teach
> themselves logo in a very short time.
> The primary aim is not to learn logo, but I am planning to use logo as a
> target language in a compiler implementation course (because it is the
> language that the MIT programmable brick understands).
> [...]

The Berkley Logo User Manual which can be obtained from UCB on the Web is
not a text book, but it suits my purpose quite well.

Book suggestions were

Roger W. Haigh, LOGO for Apple computers, N.Y., Wiley 1984

McDougall, A. Adams, T & Adams. P. (1986). Learning Logo on the Apple IIE.
Sydney: Prentice-Hall

and the Primer by Jim Muller: "The Turtles Discovery Book" which is on the Web.

The best Web entry point to find Logo stuff (including the FAQs and Jim
Muller's primer) is http://www.ultranet.com/~mills.

Another text I have discovered myself is the

Pocket Guide LOGO, Boris Allan, London, Pitman 1984

Not a comprehensive text book, but not bad if you want to learn logo in 60
minutes and already have programming experience.

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