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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."

3 of 124 comments (clear)

  1. Re:adults? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOSPOS BITCH

  2. Xbox Yuk! by WhiteFluffyChest · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wouldn't want to see my children with an Xbox, depressing...

    Just jump into the Microsoft hole...

    Let them take over the internet and the gaming market...

    Xbox blew SEGA out of the market.

    Not nice.

    Anything but Microsoft please...

  3. Re:adults? by ivucica · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A certain "flashlight", misspelled?