Logo is a programming language designed for teaching, developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon at the research firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman. It is based on Lisp, and it is best known for its turtle graphics, in which learners give instructions to a cursor, the turtle, that draws lines on the screen or moves a small floor robot. Papert, who worked at MIT, saw it as a tool for constructionist learning, in which children learn mathematics and logical thinking by building things. Logo was widely used in schools in the 1980s on home computers, and it influenced later educational languages such as Scratch.
Before and after
- 16 December 1966International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- 16 December 1966International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- 18 December 1966Discovery of Epimetheus
- 1967Publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude
- 1967Creation of Logo
- 1967Strawberry Fields Forever
- 1967Naxalbari uprising
- 1967Launch of Rolling Stone
- 1967Creation of BCPL
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- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 29 August 1982Discovery of meitnerium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
The era
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