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From: maner@bgsuvax.UUCP (Walter Maner)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Logo for college-level computer literacy courses
Message-ID: <6098@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 90 21:31:32 GMT
References: <1990Jul31.195854.4630@cs.rochester.edu>
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From article <1990Jul31.195854.4630@cs.rochester.edu>, by quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz):
> We are sort of considering running a computer literacy class with
> something like Logo instead of Pascal.  I would appreciate hearing

Some recent research has, surprisingly, found Logo harder to learn than
Lisp (Scheme).  If you want something like Pascal but more coherent and
user-friendly, you might try Turing.
WALT

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