Python and Schools

[Erik Max Francis]

Ian Bicking wrote:

> It's also a question of what you're trying to teach.  Something that
> has
> always impressed me with Logo is that it's more of a teaching
> philosophy, and a language goes with it.  The intention behind Logo
> isn't to teach programming... rather, programming is a medium in which
> to teach all sorts of other great stuff.

And, I might point out, Logo really gets a bad rap by the general
populace as a "toy" language that just involves little turtles running
around like silly things.  In actuality, Logo was originally designed
for abstract manipulation of symbols (_logo_ means "word" in Greek); the
turtle graphics stuff came later.  Logo is in fact a fun little cousin
of the Lisp family.

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