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Seymour Papert
KindPerson
Born1928
Died2016
StatusDead
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Co-created Logo — the turtle — and founded constructionism: children learn by building things that compute.

Created Logo

Co-created Logo (1967) and wrote 'Mindstorms' (1980) — the constructionist manifesto arguing children should program computers, not be programmed by them.\n\nA Piaget collaborator who brought learning theory to computing; Scratch is his intellectual grandchild.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Papert