The Great Logo Adventure (Logo Language Programming for Kids)

Welcome......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
A Logo Fable......Page 10
Which Logo Are You Using......Page 16
Installing MSW Logo......Page 17
Opening Logo......Page 20
Parts of the  Screen......Page 21
MSW Logo Menus......Page 23
2 Meet the Turtle......Page 30
Turtle Directions......Page 31
Turning the Turtle......Page 33
Cleaning Up After Yourself......Page 35
Rabbit Trail 1. Turtle Games Off the Computer......Page 37
Learning Turtle Shorthand......Page 41
Rabbit Trail 2. Making a Pencil Turtle......Page 48
Rabbit Trail 3. Exploring Turtle Town......Page 51
Rabbit Trail 4. Turtle Geography......Page 55
Rabbit Trail 5. Logo Sports......Page 66
Printing and Saving Your Pictures......Page 70
Writing Your Own Logo Journal......Page 73
3 Shapes......Page 74
Rabbit Trail 6. Body Geometry Exploring Squares......Page 75
More Adventures with Squares......Page 80
Rabbit Trail 7. Logo Puzzles......Page 85
Exploring Triangles......Page 86
Rabbit Trail 8. More Logo Puzzles......Page 99
Adventures With Rectangles......Page 100
What’s a Parallelogram......Page 104
Morf’s Oneliners......Page 107
Rabbit Trail 9. Clocks, String, and Other Stuff......Page 113
Rabbit Trail 10. Clocks On and Off the Computer......Page 117
Rabbit Trail 11. Learning With a Ball of String......Page 120
Rabbit Trail 12. The String Toss Game......Page 125
Finding Shapes All Over......Page 126
4 Procedures......Page 130
Writing Your Own Procedures......Page 131
Naming Procedures......Page 132
Rabbit Trail 13. Exploring With Blocks......Page 143
Houses, Squares, Wheels, and Things......Page 144
Saving Procedures......Page 154
Loading Procedures......Page 156
Editing Your Procedures......Page 157
What’s In Your Workspace......Page 165
Tracing Procedures......Page 166
Organizing Your Procedures......Page 169
Rabbit Trail 14. Playing With Diamonds......Page 172
Superprocedures and Subprocedures......Page 173
5 Color, Music & Pizzazz......Page 178
Using Primary Colors......Page 179
Logo Color Commands......Page 181
Adding Pizzazz to Text......Page 197
Add Some Sound Effects......Page 201
Rabbit Trail 15. Musical Fractions......Page 206
6 Varying Variables......Page 212
Variables in Logo......Page 213
Polygons and Things......Page 219
Rabbit Trail 16. Variable String Toss......Page 220
Hexagons and Spiderwebs......Page 221
Local and Global Variables......Page 224
Conditional Things......Page 229
More on Tessellations......Page 233
Rabbit Trail 17. Tessellating Squares......Page 236
Rabbit Trail 18.   Tangrams......Page 240
From Two to Three Dimensions......Page 247
Rabbit Trail 19. Folded Paper Fun......Page 250
DEFINE Your Procedures......Page 254
Bury and Unbury......Page 258
Waiting......Page 261
Playing With Polygons......Page 264
Pentagon Power......Page 265
Playing With Circles......Page 267
Defining a Circle......Page 271
The Rule of 360......Page 274
More Playing With Polygons......Page 277
Arcs, Circles, Hoops, and Things......Page 283
Arc and Circle Tools......Page 286
ARC, ARC2, CIRCLE, and CIRCLE2......Page 288
Rabbit Trail 20.   Star Gazing......Page 289
Turtle Headings......Page 306
Turtle Compass......Page 310
Rabbit Trail 21. The Turtle Rally......Page 311
X - Y Coordinates......Page 312
Drawing an Ellipse......Page 317
Logy’s Turtle Trail:  Drawing an Ellipse......Page 318
More Circles and Arcs......Page 324
Creative Coordinates......Page 328
A Target Game......Page 330
Logo Geography......Page 349
9 Recursion......Page 352
Tail-end Recursion......Page 354
Embedded Recursion......Page 359
Rabbit Trail 22.  Recursive Pages......Page 361
Spirals, Squirals, Polyspis, and Fractals......Page 367
Rabbit Trail 23.   String and Wire Art......Page 374
Rabbit Trail 24. Curves From Straight Lines......Page 377
Fun With Fractals......Page 390
10 Great Math Adventure......Page 404
Logo Arithmetic......Page 405
Positive and Negative Numbers......Page 407
Rabbit Trail 25. Positive and Negative Numbers......Page 408
The Tangram Procedures......Page 415
RANDOM, Picking, and Shuffling......Page 419
Squares and Square Roots......Page 422
A Quick Look at Trigonometry......Page 427
Logical Operations......Page 438
Math Challenges......Page 439
Rotating Planes in Space......Page 440
How About Turtle CAD......Page 442
Understanding Property Lists......Page 445
Is Mathematics a Language......Page 447
Simulating Multiple Turtles......Page 450
Working With Multiple Turtles......Page 458
Changing the Shape of the Turtle......Page 459
Animating the Turtle......Page 464
12 Talk to your Computer......Page 486
Did you ever talk to your computer?......Page 487
Logo Sentences......Page 488
Logo Numbers, Characters, Words, and Lists......Page 489
Word Games......Page 508
Windows Programming......Page 509
Logo and Artificial Intelligence......Page 527
12 What's Left......Page 534
CD......Page 538