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In article <16846BBA1.SDENARO@vm.poly.edu> SDENARO@vm.poly.edu writes:
>After playing with LOGO for ten minutes to show him what to do,
>I left. I figured LOGO and "Flight" are better than "Kill-Fest II".
> 
>His mother has since told me that he spends 2 or 3 hours a day writing
>programs, His mother bought a book on logo. He is looking forward to the
>start o school so he can show his teachers what he can do.
> 
>I will start him on Pascal in a year or two.
> 
>The thing about the computer that he is drawn to is that it will
>to listen to him for as long as he is willing to listen to him.
> 
>I do not think logo is to old. I demand more money be put into
>languages for kids. It may turn them on to the use of computers,
>not just for programing, but to there use in other fields.
> 

	I agree with you Logo is a good tool to introduce children
	to computers.  When I was in Grade 7, we had the first
	full fledged computer lab and course in Ontario.  We were
	using Commodore 64's.  And rightly or wrongly Logo was 
	a big part of one of the programming topic.  Out of my
	class I know several people who were motivated to
	go on in computer studies of some sort.  Other students
	were quick to catch on and Logo probably was a neat and
	fun way to introduce them to being able to tell the computer
	what to do.

	Like anything, Logo is just a tool, it all depends on how
	and in what situation it is applied. 

	Brent
	newsome@drdcs.slate.crad.dnd.ca