FUN with Boolean Logic!
AND OR NOT XOR, NOR, NAND, XNOR The Main Ingredients AND OR NOT XOR, NOR, NAND, XNOR
How They Are Often Represented Funny Characters: ∧ = AND, ∨ = OR, ¬ = NOT, ⊕ = XOR, etc. && = AND, || = OR, ! = NOT, ^ = XOR, etc. Truth Tables Venn Diagrams Boooring!
MOST Fun as Logic Gates!
…Which Become Circuit Diagrams!
Circuits Become Games! Rocky’s Boots and Robot Odyssey: Early to Mid 1980’s for Apple II and IBM PCs.
More Modern Games DroidQuest: a remake of Robot Odyssey GATE, from One Girl One Laptop Productions
Non-Game Tools Logic.ly Atanua, real-time logic simulator CEDAR Logic Simulator (includes religious content!) LabView from National Instruments (overkill?)
My Own Tool: “AndorBot”
Things to do in AndorBot:
But you can build robots with it! Why Boolean Logic?! Not relevant to skeptical logic… Not relevant to real world “gray areas”… Not terribly relevant to decimal mathematics But you can build robots with it!