Turtles All the Way Down

Turtles All the Way Down is a hands-on, audience-assisted live-coding demo using Turtle Geometry, a tool from MIT that was used to enable children as young as preschool to learn introductory coding and mathematical operations. The history of Turtle coding, which is rich and varied, touches all aspects of education reform in the US (successful and otherwise) and helps to quickly and effectively explode the notion that “engineering is only for certain types of people.” It has a rapid democratizing effect on our attitudes towards learning (and ourselves as learners) and a rich, proven history of accessibility. Anyone can pick it up in a few minutes, and it works with every modern programming language.

Turtles All the Way Down is a project by Luke Conley.