Is there a dialect of LISP/Logo in Portuguese?

Question

For children programming with English words can get in the way a little to understand well what everything is and does. I grew up with Superlogo in Dutch. There are things like this in English?

Answer 1

Kturtle of The KDE Education Project (documentation).

Kturtle is an educational programming environment that uses Turtlescript, a programming language loosely based and inspired by the Logo. The goal of Kturtle is to make programming as easy and accessible as possible. This makes Kturtle suitable for teaching children the basics of Mathematics, Geometry and... programming. One of the main features of Turtlescript is the ability to translate commands into the programmer’s language.

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Scratch of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (documentation).

Currently people have access to an unbelievable variety of interactive games, stories, animations, simulations and other types of interactive and dynamic media on their computers, but for most, these programs are a one-way street ca: you can just see,click and use what has been created by other people, you cannot design and create your own programs.

Scratch changes this by broadening the range of what you can design and create on the computer, making it easy to combine d and Graphics, fotos, music and sounds to generate interactive creations. With Scratch, you can create characters that dance, sing and interact with each other, or create images that rotate, rotate and are animated in response to mouse movements, or integrate images with sound effects and music clips to create a birthday card for a friend, or create an interactive school report.

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xLogo (documentation).

XLOGO is an LOGO interpreter written in Java that currently runs in 8 languages: German, Arabic, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Welsh and Esperanto. Released under GPL license, it is a free ("software") program.

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Tat Academy (documentation).

With the Tat Academy it is surprisingly easy to start creating amazing form with Logo Language

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Superlogo of State University of Campinas (Unicamp) (documentation).

This free version of Logo in Portuguese was developed by Nied of Unicamp based on Mswlogo (about Mswlogo it may also be interesting to try Fmslogo, with interfaces in English, Spanish, German and now also in Portuguese).

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wxLogo of Federal University of Lavras (UFLA) (documentation).

The wxLogo project consists of the development of a cross-platform LOGO interpreter (with version for Windows and Linux, at least).

This project was created with the hope of building with the reduction of costs of computer laboratories in public schools, providing a free program and running in a free operating system. LOGO is widely used in computer labs as it stimulates students' logical reasoning.

Answer 2

Other relevant alternatives to start programming with a child target audience or who are unfamiliar with English are:

• G-Portugol

  G-Portugol is a structured programming language, entirely in Portuguese, derived from what is now known as "portugol" (a notation widely used to describe algorithms in Portuguese in a free and spontaneous way).

  algoritmo OlaMundo;
  início
    imprima("Olá, Mundo!");
  fim
  

  It is interesting to note that the language supports accented characters.

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• Scratch (MIT)

  Scratch is much more accessible than other programming languages, by using a graphical interface that allows programs to be assembled as building blocks, resembling the Lego toy. It uses syntax common to many programming languages. And unlike other languages, it has no obscure punctuation.

  

Answer 3

There is. I remember playing with Logo in school and it was in Portuguese. There were many such programs in the 1990s and early 2000s, but of the still active ones the only one I remember is Kturtle.

The Kturtle (http://edu.kde.org/kturtle) is part of a suite of KDE educational applications. It has a Logo-based language and can be translated. The latest version is for KDE4 and there is English translation!