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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by NayamAmarshe on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:48AM (#35373479)
Anybody remember Logo? That turtle graphics program? That's what they taught us at school. Programming for kids surely has changed a lot since then.
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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by jazzido on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:55AM (#35373582)
Scratch is part of the same lineage [0]. Seymour Papert (creator of Logo) was one of the doctoral advisors of Mitch Resnick, who leads the group at MIT that maintains Scratch.

[0] https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/histor...

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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by kleer001 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:26AM (#35374177)
THAT is fantastic and heartwarming. I wish they put that front and center on a History of Scratch page.
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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by latchkey on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:06AM (#35373771)
My grandfather got me a lesson in Logo when I was <10 on his apple ii. It was before I understood the concept of degrees, so I really struggled with it. That said, it is part of what made me into a software engineer today.
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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by mcshicks on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:05AM (#35373764)
You can do turtle graphics in scratch. I have taught some beginner scratch classes at my local library and used the turtle graphics feature for the example for the class
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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by empressplay on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:04PM (#35374874)
There are modern web-based Logo interpreters too, including:

Lynx (2D): https://lynxcoding.club turtleSpaces (3D): https://turtlespaces.org/weblogo

Logo is still taught by many schools, all around the world!

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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by theonething on Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:43PM (#35379184)
I played around with Scratch and all the pointing, clicking and dragging drove me nuts.
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