Atari
Logo
is
an excellent language for ac-
quainting children (and
adults
who
don't
want
to
get
into technical details)
with
programming
-and
it's a
lot
of
fun
to
boot!
The Logo lan-
guage was developed
at
MIT
by
Dr.
Seymour
Papert,
and
is
very popular
with
educators. This
language also includes reference and instruction
manuals.
Assembler,
or
machine language
as
it
is
called,
is
difficult
to
learn and master. Learning assembler
is
best attempted
only
after
you
are very familiar
with
general programming concepts. Stick
with
BASIC
or
Logo for starters. If
you
progress
to
a
machine code
language, consider
the
Atari
Macro
Assembler,
or
the
MAC/65
,
two
very
fine programs for
writing
programs in
the
Assembler language on the Atari. Both are avail-
able
in diskette format, and require 32K
of
memory.
These
are certainly
not
the
only
languages
available for
your
Atari.
PILOT,
Pascal,
FORTH,
BASIC
A +
Microsoft
BASIC,
LISP
, ACTION,
"C,"
and others are available
as
well
. If programming
turns
out
to
be
your
area
of
interest. investigate
these
languages
when
you
are in need
of
new
ideas and programming challenges.
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