Does turtle graphics have the wrong associations?

[Richard Heathfield]

In <hdj4aj$7k4$1 at news.eternal-september.org>, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:

> But in reality the intellectual challenge of something in the
> traditional "basic" category can be greater than for something
> conventionally regarded as "advanced".

And consequently is much harder to teach. I have nothing but 
admiration for primary school children and their teachers, because 
children can *actually learn to read*. Once you can read, future 
learning objectives become much easier to achieve. Same with 
programming - once you've grokked the core ideas, the rest is more or 
less window dressing in comparison.

The gap between nought and one is much greater than the gap between 
one and a thousand.

<snip>

> It's like
> the difference between driving a car and designing one. You don't
> need an engineering degree to drive a car. :-)

Right. Nowadays, you need a degree in electronics instead.

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