Logo sucked you in with the turtle graphics and making cool shapes. It is basically a computer etch-a-sketch, but it does get boring at some point. I am so grateful that I had a teacher that pointed out there was an amazing language just past cute turtles. Logo was a real change from programming in BASIC, FORTH, and 6502 assembler. It was one thing to read about all the cool languages in Byte Magazine, but it was quite another to actually get a shot at programming one of the cooler ones.