LOGO

What is LOGO

LOGO is a programming language to teach kids the basics of computer programming (coding). It is a powerful language that happens to be easy to learn. As an added benefit, LOGO is fun to learn. LOGO is written for kids from kindergarten to 8 years old and beyond. 

The LOGO programming lets kids draw different shapes like polygons, draw flowers, spider nets, and a lot of fun shapes by moving a turtle around a screen to draw graphics. Drawing these shapes is referred to as Turtle Graphics. For turtle graphics, see the link for example of graphics here polygon.

History of LOGO

Logo is a programming language designed in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. The Logo name is not an acronym: the name was coined by Feurzeig while he was at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, and derives from the Greek logos, meaning word or thought.

UCB Logo was developed at the University of California, Berkeley by Brian Harvey and his students (called Berkeley LOGO).

The UCB LOGO was improved by others such as David Costanzo’s FMSLogo, an updated version of MSWLogo, (a Windows-only version with multimedia and other enhancements.)

<a href=”https://mswlogo.en.softonic.com/download“>

How to Download LOGO and Install it on Your Computer

This website uses a version of LOGO named FMSLOGO. All examples in this website were developed on Windows computer. The program can be downloaded from the FMSLogo project portal on SourceForge.net.

FMSLogo on SourceForge

Acknowledgements and Credits

The LOGO chapters borrow ideas presented in David Costanzo’s LOGO Workshop at

<a href=”http://fmslogo.sourceforge.net/workshop/“>

The website includes ideas from UCB Berkeley LOGO at

<a href=”https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html“>