Modern Logo implementation available through Turtle Art website

This is wonderful for several reasons.  So great to see a new version of Logo available that runs in a browser.  So really great to see something new from Brian Silverman, one of the smartest people I’ve ever met.  Brian has taught me a lot about education and computing, and he does wonderful work.  Thanks to Gary Stager for pointing me to this.

I’ve been teaching a lot of Logo lately, particularly a relatively new version called Turtle Art. Turtle Art is a real throwback to the days of one turtle focused on turtle geometry, but the interface has been simplified to allow block-based programming and the images resulting from mathematical ideas can be quite beautiful works of art. you can see some examples in the image gallery at Turtleart.org. Turtle Art was created by Brian Silverman, Artemis Papert (Seymour’s daughter), and their friend Paula Bonta. Turtle Art itself is a work of art that allows learners of all ages to begin programming, creating, solving problems, and engaging in hard fun within seconds of seeing it for the first time. Since an MIT undergraduate in the late 1970s, Brian Silverman has made Papert’s ideas live in products that often exceeded Papert’s expectations.

via A Love Letter : Stager-to-Go.