A CONCURRENT MICROWORLD

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Cisternino, A., Laganà, M.R., Ricci, L. & Capretti, G. (1999). A CONCURRENT MICROWORLD. In B. Collis & R. Oliver (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 1999 (pp. 1404-1405). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Conference Information

World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 1999
1999
ISBN 1-880094-35-5
  Betty Collis & Ron Oliver
AACE

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Authors

Antonio Cisternino, Maria Rita Laganà, Laura Ricci, Giuseppina Capretti, Dipartimento di Informatica, Italy

Abstract

The Logo language (Harvey, B., 1997) has been ideal for students first approach to computer science: today the evolution of systems and programming languages has caused the evolution of its implementations including multimedia, graphics and concurrency features (Cisternino. et at., 1998) (Resnick 1990). In this paper we propose a micro-world based on the Logo programming philosophy: the user may program interacting entities through a language that integrates the Logo turtles primitives with constructs to co-ordinate and synchronise concurrent agents. The power of this system is allowing a decentralised way of modelling the world: a creature has "conscience" of itself and interacts with the surrounding environment in explicit way using communication primitives. This approach is different, for instance, from that of the StarLogo system (Resnick 1990) where a turtle is view as part of a community.

Keywords

• Computer Sciences
• Languages
• Interaction
• Programming

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