Early Education

Tonight I was playing around on my computer.  I came a cross a modified program I used as a child in the late 80's.  The original program was called Logo Writer.  It's a simplified interface for creating a graphical computer program.  On the main screen it had a turtle in the upper portion and down below a text box where you could type commands in and make the turtle move.  Commands like "PU", "PD" pen up, pen down, "FD" forward, "BK" backward, "RT" right turn, "LT" left turn you tell the turtle FD 10 and the turtle moves 10 units forward. RT 90 makes the turtle do a 90 degree turn. You could draw any shape with it and then name that shape and move the whole shape.  In 5th grade I made mock clouds, told the clouds how to move then shot myself on video giving a weather report.  This exercise was my first venture into computer programming where I actually designed the program.  Before this time I had done some programming in Basic on our SVI computer using pre-designed programs which I would type in and then run them.  Computers weren't so common back then but now they are common place.  Almost everyone I know has a computer of some kind.