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Re:Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding by wallflower on Sunday May 11, 2014 @12:56PM (#7729147)
> A friend of mine who's now an history researcher told me how that thing digusted him from computers for 20 years.

Can you please elaborate? Was it the infantilism? Or something else? Does your friend pursue coding now?

Logo and other "beginner" languages are more about introductions to using computers to create, not about teaching programming.

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Re:Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding by xmonkee on Sunday May 11, 2014 @02:08PM (#7729351)
Can be a couple of things

1. It intimidated him. Happened to some friends of mine. 2. He realized history is better than writing procedural code . Should have learnt haskell

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Re:Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding by quanticle on Sunday May 11, 2014 @02:30PM (#7729428)
You do realize that LOGO is a Lisp variant, right? It's not exactly procedural.
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Re:Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding by xmonkee on Monday May 12, 2014 @05:42AM (#7731834)
I had no idea, thanks. It never looked anything like a lisp though.
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Re:Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding by bsaul on Sunday May 11, 2014 @06:00PM (#7730192)
I think that teaching programming doesn't necesseraly make you enjoy programming. Just like with any topic, the first step is to make people sufficently interested in a subject to have them be willing to spend some time doing boring stuff. At that time, computers weren't as ubiquitous as they are now.
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Re:Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding by fredgrott on Sunday May 11, 2014 @02:10PM (#7729362)
no opposite..lookup learning theory.. MIT, etc

LOGO was crated as part of the new learning theory explorations at MIT and else where during the 1980s..

But in your friend defense Logo was designed for kids at a certain mental age...obviously your friend was beyond that age when exposed to LOGO

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Re:Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding by bsaul on Sunday May 11, 2014 @06:03PM (#7730202)
Oh, no, i wasn't probably clear enough. We have the same age, et both did that course at the same age. We just happend to have a very different opinion on that period.
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