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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. It's not every day you get to... by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently the BBC thinks upgrading psychopathic, racist death machines is a good idea!

    Doesn't everybody?

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    That is all.
    1. Re:It's not every day you get to... by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

      In the USA we call them "drones"

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      Table-ized A.I.
    2. Re:It's not every day you get to... by KinkyClown · · Score: 1, Funny

      I for one welcome our new overlords...

  2. Alien Space Amazons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait, how do you know a Dalek is a "him"?

    The eye-cock, the raygun-cock, the plunger-cock, the scrotum bumps, ...

    Actually, makes more sense that it's a woman then. They are essentially female beings with extreme cases of penis-envy who have given up their original bodies and put their brains into "strap-on" suits (armor) that give them the Alpha power and have all the "alpha male" symbols protruding from them in the extreme in order to create the emotional impact they desire.

    These alien Space Amazon Feminists have had it and are now going to out do the males they so envy by destroying everyone that is male and all females that "co-conspire" with the males (by allowing them to exist). Which means they are trying to exterminate everyone but themselves.

    And here comes the "Doctor", the arguably most ALPHA of the ALPHA Males in the entire universe.. Of course they would be obsessed with HIM and with destroying him.

    -- My god.. I started writing this as a joke.. but now it actually makes sense. It fits everything perfectly.. The series needs only to reveal that Davros was actually a woman, a woman who hid the fact that she was a woman in order to attain the access and power necessary in her society to create her augmented Superior Female Race..

    I wish I could post this under my account instead of as A.C. but this is too hot.

  3. You just know what this is going to lead to.. by levork · · Score: 4, Funny

    10 EXTERMINATE
    20 GOTO 10