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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. Xbox? Xbox 360! by pengipengi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why the h*ck does everybody always call xbox 360 for xbox? The xbox is a couple of year old black ugly box...

    I hoped this would be a great game for me to play on my xbox... but no no...