Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds
Author:   Mitchel Resnick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780262680936


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   22 January 1997
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Mitchel Resnick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780262680936


ISBN 10:   0262680939
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   22 January 1997
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Foundations: introduction; the era of decentralization. Part 2 Constructions: constructionism; LEGO/logo; StarLogo; objects and parallelism. Part 3 Explorations: simulations and stimulations; slime mould; artificial ants; traffic jams; termites; turtles and frogs; turtle ecology; new turtle geometry; forest fire; recursive trees. Part 4 Reflections: the centralized mindset; beyond the centralized mindset. Part 5 Projections: growing up. Appendices: student participants; StarLogo overview.

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Mitchel Resnick's book is one of the very few in the field of computing with an interdisciplinary discourse that can reach beyond the technical community to philsophers, psychologists, and historians and sociologists of science. --Sherry Turkle, Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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Mitchel Resnick, an expert in educational technologies, is Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab.His research group develops the Scratch programming software and online community, the world's largest coding platform for kids. He has worked closely with the LEGO company on educational ideas and products, such as the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kits, and he cofounded the Computer Clubhouse project, an international network of after-school learning centers for youth from low-income communities.

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