Mindstorms (book)

{{Short description|1980 book by Seymour Papert}}

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| name = Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas

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| caption = First edition

| author = Seymour Papert

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| subject = Computer literacy

| published = 1980 (Harvester Press)

| media_type = Print

| pages = 238

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| isbn = 978-0-85527-163-3

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| series = Harvester Studies in Cognitive Science

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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas is a book by computer scientist Seymour Papert, in which he argues for the benefits of teaching computer literacy in primary and secondary education.{{cite web |url=https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/seymour-a-papert/mindstorms/9780465046744/ |title=Mindstorms |website=BasicBooks.com |publisher=Basic Books}} It was published by Basic Books in 1980, and republished in a new edition by Basic Books in 1993.

The Lego Mindstorms programmable construction set system is named after the book.{{cite magazine |url=http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2007/03/the_origins_of_/ |last=Bumgardner |first=Jim |title=The Origins of Mindstorms |magazine=Wired |date=March 2007}}

In 2017, thanks to Papert's family, the book was made freely available online [https://mindstorms.media.mit.edu/ here].

Papert describes the Turtle as an "object-to-think-with" and discusses many code examples of Turtle Graphics.