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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.

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

    There are plenty of toys for adults

    There are indeed.