Re: Programming languages for the very young

From: Hrvoje Blazevic (hrvoje_at_despammed.com)
Date: 01/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:24:22 +0100

Yoyoma_2 wrote:
>
> I agree LOGO is a great language for the very, very young. But as soon
> as they get in 7th or 8th grade they will get very bored of it quick.

This tells me that you do not really know Logo, so before voicing
opinions like this again, maybe you should check Berkeley Logo and Brian
Harvey's Computer Science Logo Style (downloadable at:
http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v1-toc2.html).

-- Hrvoje

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