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The Great Logo Adventure
By Jim Muller

$24.95 US Dollars (plus S&H)

350 pages,   ISBN: 0-9651934-6-2,   Buy Now!
FREE CD ROM Comes with FREE CD-ROM containing MSW Logo for Windows 3.1 / 95 / NT, freeware by George Mills. UCB Logo for all PCs and the Macintosh, freeware from Brian Harvey. Also hundreds of Logo procedures, pictures, posters and extra projects.
Logo is a really cool concept for a programming language. The idea is that you can use commands like "FORWARD", "BACKWARD", "LEFT", and "RIGHT" to guide a "Turtle" cursor around the computer screen. The turtle, which is conceptually carrying a pen,  leaves a trail showing the path it's taken as it crawls around the screen (you can raise or lower the pen, change its color, and so forth).

Although this idea of controlling the turtle is simple, the fact that you can see immediate visual results on the screen make it remarkably effective for teaching young people (of all ages) the core concepts of programming. The Great Logo Adventure also introduces the reader to the concepts of shapes, geometry, maths, procedures, recursion, random numbers, and much, much more.

Logy (the turtle mascot) and Morph (her irrepressible rabbit friend) plant many seeds. It's up to you to nurture them and make them grow. With some adult guidance, the very young can start with Chapter 2 and "Meet the Turtle." Logy (the turtle) introduces the basic Logo commands, while Morf takes you off on some of his "Rabbit Trails"

Elementary ages can spend months with The Great Logo Adventure and never go beyond Chapter 4 (Writing Procedures). Those in middle school and beyond may want to move more quickly into the use of color, sound, and variables to be found in Chapters 5 and 6. As you move into Chapter 7 and beyond, you'll find the more complex topics of polygons, polyspirals, arcs, and circles. Later chapters introduce positive, negative, and random numbers, recursion and fractals, and ... the list goes on.

Table of Contents
Introduction

Chapter 1: Getting Started
Which Logo Are You Using
Installing MSW Logo
MSW Logo Menus

Chapter Two: Meet the Turtle
Turtle Directions
Turning the Turtle
Cleaning Up After Yourself
Rabbit Trail 1. Turtle Games Off the Computer
Learning Turtle Shorthand
Rabbit Trail 2. Making a Pencil Turtle
Rabbit Trail 3. Exploring Turtle Town
Rabbit Trail 4.Turtle Geography
Rabbit Trail 5. Logo Sports
Printing and Saving Your Pictures
Learning to Say Good-bye
Writing Your Own Logo Journal

Chapter Three: Making Shapes
Exploring Shapes
Rabbit Trail 6. Body Geometry
Exploring Squares
More Adventures with Squares
Rabbit Trail 7. Logo Puzzles
Exploring Triangles
Rabbit Trail 8. More Logo Puzzles
Adventures With Rectangles
Whats a Parallelogram?
Morfs Oneliners
Rabbit Trail 9. Clocks, String, and Other Stuff
Rabbit Trail 10. Clocks On and Off the Computer
Rabbit Trail 11. Learning With a Ball of String
Rabbit Trail 12. The String Toss Game
Finding Shapes All Over

Chapter Four: Writing Procedures
What is a Procedure
Writing Your Own Procedures
Naming Procedures
Saving Procedures
Loading Procedures
Rabbit Trail 13. Exploring With Blocks
Houses, Squares, Wheels, and Things
What's In Your Workspace
Editing Your Procedures
Tracing Procedures
Organizing Your Procedures
Rabbit Trail 14. Playing With Diamonds
Superprocedures and Subprocedures

Chapter Five: Color, Music, and Pizzazz
Adding Some Color
Using Primary Colors
Logo Color Commands
Adding Pizzazz to Text
Add Some Sound Effects
Rabbit Trail 15. Musical Fractions

Chapter Six: Varying Variables
Variables in Logo
Polygons and Things
Rabbit Trail 16.Variable String Toss
Hexagons and Spiderwebs
Local and Global Variables
Conditional Things
More on Tessellations
Rabbit Trail 17. Tessellating Squares
Rabbit Trail 18. Tangrams
From Two to Three Dimensions
Rabbit Trail 19. Folded Paper Fun
DEFINE Your Procedures
Bury and Unbury
Waiting

Chapter Seven: Polygons, Circles, Stars and Stuff
Playing With Polygons
Pentagon Power
Playing With Circles
Defining a Circle
The Rule of 360
More Playing With Polygons
Arcs, Circles, Hoops, and Things
Arc and Circle Tools
ARC, ARC2, CIRCLE, and CIRCLE2
Rabbit Trail 20. Star Gazing

Chapter Eight: Turtle Positions and Coordinates
Turtle Headings
The Turtles Compass
Rabbit Trail 21. The Turtle Rally
X - Y Coordinates
Drawing an Ellipse
Logys Turtle Trail: Drawing an Ellipse
More Circles and Arcs
Creative Coordinates
A Target Game
Logo Geography

Chapter Nine: Recursion
Is Life Recursive?
Tail-end Recursion
Embedded Recursion
Rabbit Trail 22. Recursive Pages
Spirals, Squirals, Polyspis, and Fractals
Rabbit Trail 23. String and Wire Art
Rabbit Trail 24. Curves From Straight Lines
Fun With Fractals

Chapter Ten: The Great Math Adventure
Logo Arithmetic
Positive and Negative Numbers
Rabbit Trail 25. Positive and Negative Numbers
The Tangram Procedures
RANDOM, Picking, and Shuffling
Squares and Square Roots
A Quick Look at Trigonometry
Logical Operations
Math Challenges
Rotating Planes in Space
How About Turtle CAD
Understanding Property Lists

Chapter Eleven: Animating Multiple Turtles
Simulating Multiple Turtles
Working With Multiple Turtles
Changing the Shape of the Turtle
Animating the Turtle

Chapter Twelve: Talk To Your Computer
Did you ever talk to your computer?
Logo Sentences
Logo Numbers, Characters, Words, and Lists
Word Games
Windows Programming
Logo and Artificial Intelligence

Appendix: Digging Into Logo
Copyright & Contact Info

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