I read today that LOGO is turning the big 40. I have fond memories of this particular programming language because when I was in elementary school we worked with LogoWriter on our Apple IIgs. It was one of the earliest and most formative experiences I had with a computer and I can’t begin to tell you how much I learned experimenting in LogoWriter. Driving the turtle around the screen by typing commands in on the “Front Side” just to see what they would do, and going to the”Flip Side” to write more in depth programs presented an intuitive way to introduce some pretty complex fundamentals of computer programming.
Continue reading ‘Happy Birthday Mr. Turtle!’
We’re still here. Lots of stuff going on recently and haven’t had much time to keep up with the TLC required on this site.
Since I last posted, we had the kids over for a week of pure excitement, we went up to Door County and I went Salmon Fishing with my dad and Angie’s dad, Angie’s parents visited for a weekend, we went to the Rufus Wainwright concert at the Pabst, another school year started up, my mom came to visit, I sailed in the Louie’s Last Regatta and we went to a Salsa-Off.
Since I’m so slow to post updates to the site, I won’t bore you with details of all those items, suffice it to say that we’re as busy as always, but we’re still managing to fit some fun in occasionally.
