Google is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Logo, the world’s first programming language designed for children, with a special doodle. It celebrates the computer science education week (CSEdWeek) and also mark 50 years of kids coding languages. It was developed by three teams: the Google Doodle team, Google Blockly team and researchers from MIT Scratch.
Google is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Logo, the world’s first programming language designed for children, with a special doodle. It celebrates the computer science education week (CSEdWeek) and also mark 50 years of kids coding languages. It was developed by three teams: the Google Doodle team, Google Blockly team and researchers from MIT Scratch.
The doodle, called “Coding for Carrots,” sees users help a rabbit navigate through a maze. This rabbit hops from block to block in response to increasingly complex code sequences the game directs its players to input. There are six levels in the game and before each level, there is a tutorial which helps the user to learn how to cook.
Champika Fernando, Director of Communications, Scratch Team said, “My first experience with coding was in a free after-school program back in the eighties when I was nine years old. We programmed a little green turtle to move around and draw lines on a black screen. That programming language was called Logo.”
This language was developed by mathematician Seymour Papert and a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967. Like Logo, Scratch was developed at MIT and builds on Papert’s early ideas about kids and computers. It is designed to be less intimidating than typical programming languages, but just as powerful and expressive.
He added, “This week, millions of people around the world can and will have their first experience with coding. It makes me happy to think of all of the nine-year-olds who will get their first coding experience playing with today’s Doodle. My hope is that people will find this first experience appealing and engaging, and they’ll be encouraged to go further. In some ways, it’s very different from my first coding experience many years ago, but I hope it will be just as inspiring and influential for them.”
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