Turtle makes vital link with computer

The Valiant Turtle provides the means for students to experience the abstract notions of computing, mathematics or control technology, in a concrete way.

As the world's only remote-controlled floor Turtle, the Valiant has the freedom to move, unhindered, around the classroom. This flexible tool provides students with "an object to think with". As a route into programming, Logo (see below) provides an easily mastered, simple to understand language. The pen-carrying floor Turtle stimulates students into extending their understanding in a real and exciting way, by drawing pictures not computer images.

Turtle graphics is a powerful means to explain and demonstrate intellectual ideas and to provide building blocks for progression. A triangle and a square can become a house which can become a street. Whilst using the Valiant Turtle, students develop intuitive, creative and problem-solving skills. Abstract ideas become concrete and therefore more easily managed.

"Logo is the gateway to the computer, the floor turtle is the gateway to Logo"
Seymour Papert, Creator of Logo.

"PC Logo is the Logo of my dreams. It's fast, fast, fast and has a ton of convenient features I have always wanted."
John M. Sklar, Milwaukee Educational Computing Association.

Why Logo?
Logo is an easy-to-understand computer language that makes learning fun. Using a 'Turtle', Logo makes it a simple task to break a big project into small parts and then solve each part individually.

It is an ideal first programming language which responds immediately to simple commands that you create. With a design based on artificial intelligence theories, Logo has no 'ceiling' and encourages progress from simple beginnings to increasingly advanced explorations.

Logo is an excellent language to introduce students to the stimulating area of control technology. But for all its simplicity and friendliness, PC Logo is a powerful computer language. Even experienced programmers find PC Logo for Windows a joy to use. This software has been carefully designed to promote structured and logical thinking, encouraging even the very young to explore and take an active part in the learning process. It has also been designed for the MicroSoft® Windows operating system. With over 400 primitives, many newly created, PC Logo for Windows provides the Logo power and versatility you want in a fully integrated Windows program.

Features include: complete graphics, list structure and arrays, recursion and local variables, interactively defined procedures and full floating point mathematics. Multiple windows, multiple Turtles, Turtle colour, speed and shape control, advanced debugging tools, fully illustrated on line help system, complete music system, multiple, integrated, full feature editor buffers, compatibility with all other Windows programs and more . . .

Logo is the base language for a number of control technology robotics including the Valiant infra red remote Floor Turtle.