INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

( PS O270 )

TOPIC:

LOGO – TURTLE (Workgroups)

NAME:

MOHAMAD KAMAL HIZRIAN BIN KAMIS -10D0015

PG. NUR AL’AIN BT PG. JALALUDIN - 10D0030
MARIUSREE BIN MERUSIN – 10D0029
LECTURER:

DR. LEONG YONG PAK

Logo – Turtle Graphics!?
Considered most apt language for young students to learn. Students can learn to program
movement of on-screen turtle drawing basic shapes and fractal patterns.

Now when my son's exams were over yesterday (he passed Kindergartens!), and being already
fed up with his old computer games, Feeding Frenzy and Super Tux, recalled my promise to
bring for him the Turtle Graphics software. I remembered he was asking for SpiderMan game
and my system being too slow for it, I just mentioned Logo and turtle, and he seems not to have
forgotten it…

So now I sat down searching for a Logo Software and got references being the one with latest
release (ver.6.13.0 on 18-02-2007)

FMSLogo
While till now I thought Logo to be just Turtle Graphics the following lines on FMSLogo
documentation Caught My Eye

FMSLogo includes support for

- Exception handling
- TCP/IP networking
- Direct I/O for controlling external hardware (must be admin)
- Serial and parallel port communications
- Calling into native DLLs
- Creating windows dialog boxes
- Event driven programming (mouse, keyboard, timer)
- Controlling multimedia devices (WAV sound files, CD-ROM control, etc.)
- 3D Perspective drawing (wire-frame and solids)
- Creating animated GIFs
(A few lines deleted here to focus on the ones I am surprised for)

So, contrary to my belief, Logo is not just a Child's play...