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Community Service Contract

Passover song Who Knows the One

Week 1

"If we study Japanese Art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? In studying the distance between the earth and moon? No. In studying Bismark's policy? No. He studies a single blade of grass." -- Vincent Van Gogh

Circles

Read about Zen Art and practice your Enso, the empty circles.

The LOGO Language

There are many different versions of the LOGO computer language demonstrated in class. The LOGO Foundation has background information and lists a number of commercial and freely available implementations. The first introduction to LOGO was in the book Mindstorms by Seymour Papert. The one Barry was using is called Turtle Tracks. The Turtle Tracks web page includes (unfortunately incomplete) documentation and examples. It can installed and run as a separate application or run within a web browser as an "applet" by clicking the button below. The first command you should type when it starts is "draw" which will open the black drawing window with the turtle in it. The applet version requires the Java Plugin to be installed in your web browser. If you try it and it not working on your computer try installing the Java Plugin by clicking on the "Java Software Download" button at Java.com.