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This schedule describes the summer 2019 reading plan for the Sociotechnocanonicon.

Reading group meets on https://meet.jit.si/sociotechnocanonicon every Tuesday, 11:30 - 1:00 PM Pacific time.

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas

Mindstorms, Seymour Papert (The website has a link to downloadable PDF of the book as a single file.)

To try out the programming examples in the book, you can use an online version of Logo or download UCBLogo (available in Debian/Ubuntu/Arch Linux repositories). Note that the command to exit UCBLogo is bye.

2018-07-02 Week 1: Foreword, Introduction, Chapters 1-4 (pages vi-viii, 3-119)
2018-07-09 Week 2: Chapters 5-8, Epilogue (pg 120-207)
2018-07-16 Closing Week: Full work retrospective & follow-ups
- Computational Thinking: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
- Hackers, Computers, and Cooperation: A Critical History of Logo and Constructionist Learning
- Freire and Papert: Agency, Emancipation, and Technology (link tbd...)
- The Seeds That Seymour Sowed

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 [https://mindstorms.media.mit.edu Mindstorms], Seymour Papert (The website has a link to downloadable PDF of the book as a single file.)
-To try out the programming examples in the book, you can use an [https://www.calormen.com/jslogo/ online version] of Logo or download [http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html UCBLogo] (available in Debian/Ubuntu/Arch Linux repositories).
+To try out the programming examples in the book, you can use an [https://www.calormen.com/jslogo/ online version] of Logo or download [http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html UCBLogo] (available in Debian/Ubuntu/Arch Linux repositories). Note that the command to exit UCBLogo is <code>bye</code>.
 * 2018-07-02 Week 1: Foreword, Introduction, Chapters 1-4 (pages vi-viii, 3-119)