When I was seven I wrote a LOGO program on our school's Apple IIe to tile the (green monochrome) monitor with hexagons. It's all been downhill since.

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zucked 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Was this with the little turle as your cursor? Seeing the "older" kids who could manipulate that program/language to make stopmotion movies might have been the moment that set me on the path of "technology enthusiast" for the rest of my life. The scene of the dimmed computer lab with a whole group gathered around someone's monitor to watch the newest creation is forever etched in my memory.

	▲	Duanemclemore 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It was! I even remember it was Terrapin LOGO - which amazingly seems to still be around. [0] None of us ever made anything as good as a stop-motion. It didn't even occur to me to do anything that cool. But I was obsessed with geometry and patterns, and benefit from a group of us being allowed up into the middle school to use the computer at lunchtime recess. When I was older and got official "Enrichment" classes after school I tackled the same pattern and figured out how to do it with a minimum of repeated line segments. I also figured I might as well do triangular and square tilings. But those were boring, as there isn't a repeated edge problem to solve. [0] https://www.terrapinlogo.com/

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cwmoore 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I made a “circle” but you could see the pixels. I can’t see the pixels anymore.

	▲	JSR_FDED 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The glory days of hi-res graphics… 280x160 pixels!
	▲	Duanemclemore 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is what we've lost. ;)

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SequoiaHope 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s really cool! In adulthood I’ve learned about Seymour Papert and LOGO but I was never exposed to it when I was young. We did have early 90’s Macs in grade school.

	▲	Duanemclemore 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, it was fun. I had no idea the theory at the time, but Papert et al were definitely on to something.