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Logo Programming Language

55 points azhenley 2 days ago 15 comments

lackoftactics 54 minutes ago | parent

I didn't win logo programming competition in polish equivalent of 7th grade and I am still salty about it

Tade0 10 minutes ago | parent

I learned the Language through examples because the version provided by the school didn't have documentation and in 00s Poland internet was still relatively rare.

I... participed in the competition, but that's all.

mococa 50 minutes ago | parent

I learned how to program (& do CAD) with LOGO when I was 8 y'old.

animateus 42 minutes ago | parent

Oh my god - Logo, brings back memories of my childhood and my first "microcomputer": ZX Spectrum +. I spent countless hours trying to force the damn turtle to draw shapes I wanted it to. Unbelievable that this language is still alive.

wooperville 36 minutes ago | parent

The majority of GenX programmers I know learned logo in the 70s and early 80s. Such a great introductory language.

joeypickles 11 minutes ago | parent

Yeah, somehow I owe my entire software engineering career to that flower and garden program example. There was something about being able to add new words based on primitives, and new words based on custom words, that captured me for good.

ihumanable 32 minutes ago | parent

I still remember when we learned logo in elementary school. I had to get my mom to go out and buy a 3.5" disk so I could save my programs.

When I realized that all of logo was actually saved on that disk and I could continue playing with the turtle at home, I was amazed.

Drawing little things, realizing that I was repeating stuff and breaking it into little functions so I could draw them again more easily. I was learning the essentials of programming and didn't even realize it.

corysama 30 minutes ago | parent

Logo was my introduction to programming. Working on a 1 MHz Commodore64, my masterpiece was a fireworks show that was animated by the fact that the individual drawing commands were so slow you could watch them play out.

So, draw a curve from the ground to the sky. Draw some explosion shape. Change pen color to the sky color. Draw the curve and the explosion again to erase them. Change pen color and start the next firework.

Towaway69 16 minutes ago | parent

Not to be confused with NetLogo ;)

https://www.netlogo.org/

whobre 15 minutes ago | parent

Dr Logo: https://winworldpc.com/product/dr-logo/1x

stusmall 5 minutes ago | parent

Logo started my love of programming. I will always be thankful for it and that little turtle. IIRC there was a limit of 128 stamps in LogoWriter and my sister and I would fight so much about it.

tshapedrob 4 minutes ago | parent

Berkeley Logo was one of my first programming languages. The idea of declaring functions with the keyword “to” still feels like a fun and good idea, even though of course it doesn’t matter. Just a different perspective.