Sure, it may not have the sophisticated robotics or even fancy graphics of today's tools, but the Logo programming language has been the first blush with programming of those who would eventually ...

So instead of reindeer, Santa's only hope is a turtle. Yes that's right, the turtle-powered Logo programming language, developed in 1967 mostly at MIT.

In 1967, the Logo programming language launched, aimed at teaching kids how to move a triangle “turtle” around to draw lines on a screen.

Cross posted from our friend Aaron Rowe at Wired Science: Forty years ago, researchers developed a programming language that would become a brilliant educational tool. As I remember it, LOGO was a ...