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Nothing brings a warm fuzzy feeling to a software engineer like flipping through your first-grade son's homework and running across his first program !

Tyler's First Logo Program

Tyler has computer class two days a week as we understand it -- Tuesday and Thursday, just after lunch, taught by his kindergarden teacher from last year. The first week of school, he learned the username and password to logon (passwords are supposed to be secrets he informed us, but he could tell us because you cannot keep secrets from your parents). Now, it appears they have jumped right into Logo. On Thursday, Tyler created a box, 100 units on a side, and was able to bring home the proof.

The only downside I suppose is that he is using a Windows program to learn Logo instead of cutting his teeth on an Apple II like I did, but he is about four years ahead of me as I did not get my first crack at programming (with Logo at least) until fifth grade as I recall. I did however spend a little bit of time with Basic on the Commodore 64 a bit before then, but probably not around first grade (more fun to play Donkey Kong and Sea Wolf).

Now you'll have to excuse me, downloaded ACSLogo and I am off coding...