Computer Science Logo Style

Taken from BrianHarvey 's website: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/

Now FREE for personal use: The second edition of Computer Science Logo Style, a three-volume series intended mainly for teenagers and their teachers, or for adults who aren't professional programmers.

• Symbolic Computing, a Logo programming text that concentrates on natural language processing rather than the graphics most people associate with Logo.
• Advanced Techniques, in which discussions of more advanced Logo features alternate with sample projects using those features, with commentary on the structure and style of each.
• Beyond Programming, brief introductions to six college-level computer science topics.

From the first volume's introduction:

''See, the wonderful thing about computer programming is that it fun, perhaps not for everyone, but for very many people. There aren’t many mathematical activities that appeal so spontaneously. Kids get caught up in the excitement of programming, in the same way that other kids (or maybe the same ones) get caught up in acting, in sports, in journalism (provided the paper isn’t run by teachers), or in ham radio. If schools get too serious about computer science, that spontaneous excitement can be lost. I once heard a high school teacher say proudly that kids used to hang out in his computer lab at all hours, but since they introduced the computer science curriculum, the kids don’t want to program so much because they’ve learned that programming is just a means to the end of understanding the curriculum. No! The ideas of computer science are a means to the end of getting computers to do what you want.''