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This seems like a tangible way to introduce a young child to programming. It immediately brought back memories of drawing shapes on a grayscale display with Logo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics



It's still not as fun as a real turtle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(robot)) But there is a decent turtle lib for python, used in the Rasberry Pi book my son has and a few online tutorials like: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/turtle-snowflak...


I’ve been been pushing processing.org to everyone I think might care - I feel like it fits a similar niche in providing immediate feedback like logo. I prefer the offline java version - although the environment has language plugins for python, r and JavaScript.

And to bring it full circle, there’s an HPGL filter that lets you record vector drawing to send to your old plotter.

It’s seriously the most fun I have with computers these days.




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