> I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is.
Yep, this was 100% me too.
I "got" recursion through math and induction and a bit of graph paper, and the way it made my mind recurse to infinity made me feel ... funny ... in that age.
But it wasn't until I used Logo on the school's only Macintosh LC475 that I got the full psychedelic effects.
Funnily, that had as a consequence to fall in love with iterative function systems and pizzabox-form desktops, leading to me being introduced to Matila Ghyka's book, and Sun's Sparcstation 5.
Yep, this was 100% me too.
I "got" recursion through math and induction and a bit of graph paper, and the way it made my mind recurse to infinity made me feel ... funny ... in that age.
But it wasn't until I used Logo on the school's only Macintosh LC475 that I got the full psychedelic effects.
Nothing as intricate as NetLogo (e.g. see its Koch curve here: http://www.netlogoweb.org/launch#http://ccl.northwestern.edu...), but still a strong impression.
Funnily, that had as a consequence to fall in love with iterative function systems and pizzabox-form desktops, leading to me being introduced to Matila Ghyka's book, and Sun's Sparcstation 5.