Mindstorms (book)

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.^[1] It was published by Basic Books in 1980, and republished in a new edition by Basic Books in 1993.

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas

First edition
Author	Seymour Papert
Language	English
Series	Harvester Studies in Cognitive Science
Release number	14
Subject	Computer literacy
Published	1980 (Harvester Press)
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Pages	238
ISBN	978-0-85527-163-3
OCLC	83827854

The Lego Mindstorms programmable construction set system is named after the book.^[2]

In 2017, thanks to Papert's family, the book was made freely available online here.

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