-> CB--> CB> Well, you'll have to try it and see what you think.
-> CB--> CB>  All I can tell you
-> CB--> CB> is, given our circumstances and inclinations, we no longer
-> teach it.
-> It's Cause for pause to me, I wonder how Shelia's class will like it.
-> They will be older than my kids.
I should explain that my students will not be using Logo. I am teaching
the AP Computer Science course (or so the theory goes...) and we are
required to teach them Pascal, as that is the language they will be
examined in. I wanted to do some turtle graphics, because, frankly the
other introductory programs in several of the texts don't look so hot. I
know the turtles may not be that inspiring either, but it is a chance to
do something other than mathematical computations and string
manipulation.
I was toying around with doing Logo for the turtle graphics, but decided
that might be confusing for some of the students to learn the syntax of
Logo (or part of it) for just a couple of weeks diddling with the
turtle. When I took Pascal back in 1980 (?) I learned UCSD Pascal which
had turtle graphics included, but (of course) using Pascal syntax. This
sounded like the ideal to me. I have, after a bit of searching, found a
file on a shareware Website that is, essentially, a Pascal Turtle unit
for Turbo Pascal v.7. This is what I'm working with now.
As you mention, not only are my students a lot older than yours
(probably ages 16 to 18) but also, they have self-selected to take a
rigorous programming course.
Sheila
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