![]() ![]() The one I used to draw the above image is available here if you want to give it a shot. Today, you can find various online implementations of Logo. I don’t recall it ever being finished but they did enjoy the ride. I should have laminated them! I also recall a few of the students wanting another challenge and tried to write their own version of Logo. I made a few copies of the manual and left them on the tables in the room. Like any other formal programming languages, there were constructs and instructions to learn. Why wasn’t Mindstorms a required reading when I was learning how to teach Computer Science? Is it a required reading today at Faculties of Education? Why not? You see enough people quoting bits and pieces from the book. Had I had access to these computers and this language, my introductory course most certainly would have been considerably different. Pen Up and Pen Down took on new meaning when you’re programming over a sheet of paper. I also had an opportunity to program Logo with a “real” turtle connected to my computer at a conference. We might have had a different appreciation. Imagine if we had had this tool as we were learning the concepts. We were also applying our mathematics knowledge and learning new ways to apply that knowledge. It was “real programming” indeed that we were doing. As I started to read and research the design and philosophy of Logo as a language, I realized that we had it all backwards. ![]() It would probably come as no surprise but the students involved were really strong in mathematics and the conversations as constructions were made were delightfully mathematical. This was just fun, trying to design the most intricate things that we could. Of course, it wasn’t “real programming” – that was reserved for the assignments given in class. Design after design flew from our fingertips. It wasn’t long before my lunch time computer crew was sitting in the lab with me and we all were learning to code in Logo together. It looked a bit like this, if memory serves me correctly. I told the turtle to draw a box on the screen. I skipped over the introductory part and got right into the coding. The Logo (as you may know, there are various implementations of it I don’t know which one this was) that came with the Icon computer came with a huge manual. At the bottom, you could type commands and make the triangle do things.Īs I came to know, that triangle wasn’t a triangle. You loaded the program and essentially got this blank screen with a triangle on it. I’m the type of person that likes to poke around and investigate and Logo was one of the topics of my investigation. In fact, it wasn’t until the Unisys Icon showed up in the school that I had my first kick at it. It never was an option at university or at the Faculty of Education. In terms of timelines, I was late to the game with this one. I mean Logo as in the programming language. In any case the last three or so minutes were interesting (sans the memory wipe, which, and there's no better word for it, sucks), and promise an exciting final few episodes of the season.And, I don’t mean the Instagram logo that seems to be the topic of conversation this weekend. Interesting writing for Roger Linus, though he's been such a dick every time we've seen him that it seems odd that he never started being nicer to Ben, even after nearly losing him (though he could have, but it struck me more as a last ditch effort to make the character sympathetic). Horrible exposition in the conversation between Miles and Hurley to explain what's going on to the inattentive viewers who can't understand even simplified science fiction. Obviously Ben was going to survive and (oh how convenient) he would somehow forget about it (and hey look it's the magic immortal memory-wiping Richard to the rescue!), and this whole episode was basically about getting to that point and more repetitive, plain character drama with Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Juliet. They've been hammering 'whatever happened, happened' into our heads for weeks now, they're not going to create an alternate timeline all of a sudden. The Ben being shot storyline is absolutely horrible, and I was amazed at the 'OMG' reaction everyone had last week. These past two episodes have seen the writers clearly stalling which is appalling considering where we are in the show right now (and surprisingly they were both written by writers who usually write the more 'important' episodes). A very slightly better entry than "He's Our You" in my humble estimation, but again extremely annoying at times and almost totally pointless. ![]()
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