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Doctor Who To Teach Kids To Code

Posted by Soulskill on from the it-goes-ding-when-there's-stuff dept.

DCFC writes: The BBC is releasing a game to help 8- to 11-year-old kids get into coding. Based on Doctor Who, it alternates between a standard platform game and programming puzzles that introduce the ideas of sequence, loops, if..then, variables and a touch of event-driven programming. Kids will get to program a Dalek to make him more powerful. (Apparently the BBC thinks upgrading psychopathic, racist death machines is a good idea!)

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  1. "racist" - LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How very 'politically correct' of you, to claim Daleks are 'racist'!

    Yes, every 'baddie' in a TV programme is also a 'racist', apparently.

    By 'racist', I take it you mean "Simply wants to live around his own race, and decide for himself who he lives around"?

    So, apparently you believe that non-whites BENEFIT from living around white people, and that it would be just AWFUL to send them back to live with their own races. Why is that? Do you believe white people are superior to non-whites or something? You must be a 'white supremacist'...

    You fucking idiot. You don't even know WHY you believe what you believe...

    A lifetime of Jewish brainwashing, through the media, and you're terrified of thinking - as are most of the Slashdot crowd...