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Booklets to Get You Going with Logo
These booklets/leaflets have been produced by Peter Smith of Sheffield Hallam University. If you like them, just email him to say thank you. They are plain, straightforward and to the point. An ideal resource for anyone using Logo at any level.
- Quick Reference
- Introduction
- You’ve Programmed Before?
- Procedures
- Working with Errors
- Direction and Positioning
- Print Procedures
- Recursion
- Further Recursion
- Saving and Printing
All the Logo booklets in one zipped file
MSWLogo for Windows
MSWLogo is a free PC version of Logo which provides multiple turtles and a 3D microworld. Just type perspective and you can use commands to roll and pitch the turtle as if it were flying a helicopter. The package comes complete with a comprehensive on-screen manual.
MSWLogo FREE from Softronix website
Berkeley Logo for Mac
This is a free version of Logo for the Apple Mac, from Brian Harvey. This site also has lots of other related material.
LogoTile
LogoTile enables children (and adults) to draw regular polygons in different configurations very easily. It is a simple matter to draw them so that they touch edge to edge and this can lead to the creation of various tiling patterns. The tiles can have any number of sides and the standard length of these sides can be altered.
LogoTile is a set of Logo procedures which are buried so that they behave like new commands. The use of these commands is not forced in any way - they exist in the computer’s memory so that they can be used as and when needed.
Two of the main commands are TILE and
JF (JUMPFORWARD):
TILE 6 draws a hexagon
JF 6 5 moves the turtle from the centre of a hexagon to the centre of a neighbouring pentagon.
TILE 5 draws a pentagon
The new commands are in addition to the normal language; users always have the full power of Logo available to them. This means that the student’s work might be integrated with other projects, or their work with LogoTile might be extended by the use of Logo. For instance, the PERSPECTIVE command in MSWLogo would allow the turtle to draw tilings in 3D (Use MSWLogo’s Help menu and search for ‘perspective’ for more details of this primitive.)
For full details of the other commands, a manual and teaching ideas may be purchased (£19.50) from BECTA.
Try out LogoTile
This version works on MSWLogo v6.1d or later. Downloading the zip file which contains three files and save them all into the same directory on your hard disk. It is important to use the file names as given because they link to each other internally.
Using the Files
LogoTile may then be loaded into MSWLogo via the menu File - Load in the usual way.
LogoLine
The scale and starting point on the line may be changed. Working on/off screen and issuing multiple commands can help develop a strong image of directed number.
