ACSLogo for Mac OS X

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ACSLogo is a Logo Interpreter for Mac OS X.

Logo is a popular language used to teach simple programming by guiding the progress of a 'turtle' which moves around a graphics screen:

A new version is available (March 2008) Ñ 1.4e. This is a universal binary version. It contains some bug fixes - for a list of changes, see Release Notes

The turtle in action

Simple commands can be used to make the turtle move in a straight line or change direction, and complex patterns can be built up from the simple commands using procedures and recursive techniques:

Graphics can be exported as TIFFs, PDFs or SVGs.

ACSLogo requires MAC OS X. The current version, version 1.4e, requires Tiger (OS X 10.4) or above.

 

 

Download

The download is a self-extracting archive (1.4M).

Please note that this release requires Tiger (OS X 10.4) or later.

Right-click on the link and save it to disk:

ACSLogo14e.dmg

This should automatically be mounted as a disk image. If not, double-click on it. Drag the enclosed folder to your Applications folder, or anywhere you like.

Read ReadMe.rtf

Any problems, please send an e-mail to

Other Stuff

Command Reference (PDF, 748K). This looks better in Preview than Acrobat Reader.

Previous version of ACSLogo (1.4d).

Version before that(1.4c).

Version before that (1.4b) - works with Panther.

Features

Release notes

Logo Books

Logo Links

Example graphics:

Bitmap graphics

SVG graphics

Movies