---
title: "Logo (programming language)"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "concept"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Logo"
aliases: ["Logo programming language"]
first_seen: "2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Seymour Papert","constructionism","turtle graphics","LEGO Mindstorms"]
seek_code_commit: "7d6d9ed"
---


Educational programming language developed at Bolt, Beranek and Newman and
MIT beginning in the late 1960s, designed so children could give a
graphical "turtle" instructions and see the results of their own code
immediately — best known for turtle graphics.

Matters to this vault as the concrete technology through which [[entity-seymour-papert|Seymour
Papert]]'s constructionist thesis — "In my vision, the child programs the
computer" — was actually implemented and tested with children, and as the
direct namesake link to LEGO's later Mindstorms robotics kits.

## References
- [[claim-papert-constructionism-inverts-instructionism]]
- [[claim-papert-mindstorms-child-programs-computer-quote-verified]]
- [[claim-lego-mindstorms-named-after-papert-book]]