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Logo for the Macintosh: An Introduction through Object Logo (The MIT Press)

Harold Abelson, Amanda Abelson · 1 HN comments
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This classic guide teaches the art of programming to first time programmers. Logo for the Macintosh teaches the art of programming to first time programmers. It begins with Turtle Geometry, a series of exercises involving both Logo programming and geometric concepts. Later chapters illustrate more advanced topics, such as the famous DOCTOR program with its simulated psychotherapist and an INSTANT program that enables parents and teachers to create a programming environment for preschool children. A chapter is devoted to the topic of object-oriented programming, a key feature of the Object Logo implementation of Logo. Logo for the Macintosh is written primarily for use with Object Logo, a powerful implementation of the Logo language that greatly enhances its speed, capabilities, and overall usability in education and beyond. The book may also be used with other versions of Logo for the Macintosh.
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Aug 14, 2022 · abecedarius on Quirky computing books
In the 80s or early 90s I read a surprisingly deep Logo programming book whose title/authors I forget. Not Turtle Geometry, but similar in coming from MIT Lisp/Scheme/AI people. One of the projects near the end was a kind of basic proof assistant. There was some discussion of OOP. It was written to go with some particular microcomputer Logo system.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? Maayybe this book? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262510693/

(Search engines have become awful for a quirky search like this.)

xhevahir
I don't think that's the one. There's no mention of anything like a proof assistant in it.
pdw
That might have been Brian Harvey's _Computer Science Logo Style_. Downloadable here: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/
abecedarius
That looks like a good set of books, but different.
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