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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. Re:ps Good luck teaching AFRICANS to code... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Tea is soon going to be banned in the UK because it violates Sharia law and offends Muslims. Drinking tea in front of a Muslim is now considered a hate crime. You leftists thought that blasphemy laws weren't a slippery slope!