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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!

  2. Re:ps Good luck teaching AFRICANS to code... by dbIII · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm not from the UK, but I think "Tea Partiers" really have so little grasp on their history and US politics in general that, for example, they have no idea why the original Tea Party dressed up as Indians. The extra irony is those "Tea Partiers" that want a "strong" authoritarian government resembling the sort of thing King George was imposing on the colonies.