Re: [Edu-sig] Visual Programming in Python?
by Ian Bicking other posts by this author
Apr 15 2006 5:14PM messages near this date
Re: [Edu-sig] Visual Programming in Python?
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Re: [Edu-sig] Visual Programming in Python?
dblank@[...].edu wrote:
> Kirby said:
>
> > Just thinking out loud here. One of our Shuttleworth Summit attenders
> > was going back to Cape Town with Imagine Logo, a somewhat expensive
> > commercial Logo aimed at the kid market (I guess that's redundant:
> > Logo is by definition aimed at kids, no?).
>
> I'd like to first point out that Logo is not used by just kids for just
> playing around. We use NetLogo in a few of the college courses that I
> teach to do serious playing around. NetLogo is great, and has some things
> that I wish Python had. NetLogo is not a visual programming environment,
> but has a drag-n-drop work area for adding inputs (buttons, sliders) and
> outputs (graphs). A very nice tool indeed.
Rebol (http://www.rebol.com/) is a Logo for adults. They don't say so,
but it is Logo. Well, at least if you define Logo as "lisp without
parenthesis" (well, it's Rebol's a bit more Logo-like than *just* that,
but that's kind of the core of it).
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