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Originally uploaded by gilesbooth.

It was Henry’s academic review at school today. He’s been using a robot called Pixie and programming patterns using 2go. I wanted to play with this stuff at home, but 2go is part of a package costing 75 quid a go.
Anyway, it all reminded me of Logo, a very simple programming language where you move a turtle around using simple commands. It’s fun, and helps to teach programming (breaking down tasks into simple elements and repeating them) and geometry.
I found a very neat, free, OS X version of it called Xlogo at xlogo.sourceforge.net – I’m having fun with it, I’m sure Henry will too.