Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!scarfone From: scarfone@acsu.buffalo.edu (Steve Scarfone) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Logo for college-level computer literacy courses Message-ID: <31840@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 31 Jul 90 22:41:56 GMT References: <1990Jul31.195854.4630@cs.rochester.edu> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Organization: SUNY at Buffalo, Dept. of Computer Science Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: sybil.cs.buffalo.edu In article <1990Jul31.195854.4630@cs.rochester.edu> Cesar A. Quiroz writes: >We are sort of considering running a computer literacy class with >something like Logo instead of Pascal. I've just started using Logo in my computer literacy course. Its a mixed bag. Procedural abstraction seems to be much easier for students to understand, and with turtle commands, they can see the results of their commands readily. On the other hand, programming environment support is much weaker than it was Pascal, and the syntax of the language is somewhat irregular. (For example, there are two different conditional statements, one supports nested conditionals, the other doesn't.) If I could get the advantages of turtle graphics, the syntactic simplicity of lisp, and the programming support of Turbo, running on a PClone, I'd be very happy. Steve Scarfone scarfone@cs.buffalo.edu 226 Bell Hall, SUNYAB, Amherst NY 14215 scarfone@sunybcs.bitnet