Logo and Mindstorms - Learning How to Program

So how exactly do you learn programming? There’s more to it than just typing in code listings after all. Let’s find out using LOGO on my BBC!

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Back in the 80s people had ideas on how best to teach programming and while most focused on learning a language there were a few who went a bit deeper and tried to understand how to teach what we now call “computational thinking” – how to think up algorithms in the first place.

Come with me as I play around using LOGO on my BBC Micro, following some things from Seymour Papert’s Mindstorms book, as I explain how I use LOGO today to help teach kids how to become programmers and computer scientists.

There are a lot of videos on how to program, or how to learn Python for example. They all mostly focus on how to work through a series of exercises to learn a particular language’s syntax and this is great if you do want to learn Python or JavaScript. They don’t always go into ways to think for yourself – how to decompose a problem into parts, or how to structure an algorithm.

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