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How To Teach Programming To Kids, Via XBox

Posted by timothy on from the if-it's-fun-it's-educational dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Chris Wilson reviews Kodu, the new XBox game that he calls 'Logo on Steroids.' The game allows you to build a world and program every object in it with an in-house graphical language, making the game a primitive example of 'reactive state machines' in a 'multi-agent concurrent system.' It sounds like what we call 'application specific integrated circuits' in engineering, where every line of code runs in parallel."

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  1. Just say NO to Logo on steriods by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your turtle shrinks.

    1. Re:Just say NO to Logo on steriods by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      OH GOD NO! Not my turtle!! It is already tiny as it is!
      If that tiny thing gets any smaller, atoms will start bullying it!

  2. Need reading glasses by HangingChad · · Score: 3, Funny

    I first read the article title as How To Program Kids Via XBOX.

    That would have gotten me right into console gaming.

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    That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
  3. Re:This isn't programming. by ciderVisor · · Score: 4, Funny

    programming thanks to ZZT

    Cos every girl's crazy 'bout a C#-dressed man.

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    Squirrel!
  4. Re:adults? by similar_name · · Score: 3, Funny

    There are plenty of toys for adults

    There are indeed.

  5. Re:programming without typing? by dvice_null · · Score: 2, Funny

    "10 PRINT "HELLO ";
    20 GOTO 10 ...and brought me 28 years later where I am now."

    You are still in the loop?