OT: Book to teach Logo?

[Arthur Pemberton]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:44:53PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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>>Can anyone suggest a book to help an elementry level child learn logo
>>with KTutle? I'm leaving a computer with FC4 and KTurtle installed for
>>my 9 year old bro, and would like to give him the opportunity to explore
>>Kturtle.
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>>Thanks
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>Talking about being a day too late. Just yesterday I through out my
>Logo book since it had been out of fashion for so long.
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I had posted this very question earlier, but originally the subject like 
was "Book to teach KTurle"

>It seems to me Harold Abelson and his daughter wrote a book on Logo.
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>Searching for Logo programming on Amazons web site found several books
>but not may readily available. 
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I saw them, but most seemed targeted at adults. I was hoping for 
something simple, and well written enough that a motivated child could 
follow without assistance.

>Logo was one the great ideas of the
>last century. We it went down in flames is beyond me. Do you know
>about the Lego constructions that could be controlled in Logo?
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I heard about the Lego which was programmable, didn't realised it used Logo.