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Uses of the LOGO programming language in undergraduate instruction

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ACM '72: Proceedings of the ACM annual conference - Volume 2

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https://doi.org/10.1145/800194.805908

Published: 01 August 1972 Publication History

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LOGO is a programming language developed at Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. specifically for use in teaching. It provides the student with a rich set of numerical and symbolic primitives as elements for gradually building extended, complex program structures. The building of these structures is greatly facilitated by a procedure-oriented programming heuristic and by recursive programming. Combined with these, to make LOGO easy to learn and use by students and teachers, are a syntax resulting in program forms which resemble ordinary English, and powerful tools for debugging and modifying programs. Students without special mathematical ability can use LOGO to do real work on problems previously inaccessible to them.

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Feurzeig, W., Lukas, G., et al, "Programming-Languages as a Conceptual Framework for Teaching Mathematics" NSF Final Report, available as ED057579-82 from ERIC, and PB-206919 from NTIS (1 volume).

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Feurzeig, W., Lukas, G., "Information Processing Models and Computer Aids for Human Performance, Section 3: Programming Language as a Tool for Cognitive Research," AD732308, Defense Documentation Center.

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Uses of the LOGO programming language in undergraduate instruction
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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DOI:10.1145/800194

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