bo what? kids’ learning programming from video games
Alice always has the tastiest bits:
Boku is Microsoft’s new tool designed to help kids learn to program computers. Tool? It looks like a game. It uses a game controller as an interface - no typing, no text - and XNA.
Boku’s programming model is extremely simple as it does
not use a textual language or wiring diagrams. Kids use simple behavior
cards to enable a small virtual robot to navigate its world and achieve
specific tasks.The goal is to provide a gentle introduction to some of
the foundational elements of creative programming to children who may
not yet be ready for the complexity of classical computer languages.
(Via Wonderland.)
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