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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. Britain only by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry, CBBC games and videos can only be played if you're in the UK.

    Commonwealth citizenship apparently grants no privileges.

  2. Re:It's not every day you get to... by weszz · · Score: 2, Informative

    Daleks aren't machines though... Those are the cybermen.

    A Dalek is a living being inside the armor.

    not sure which would be better to meet, but I would pick the Dalek if I had the choice. Cybermen either upgrade you to a cyberman, or they delete you. There isn't middle ground, while ad Dalek doesn't ALWAYS destroy and kill, they will use people as leverage too.