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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. 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.

  3. Doctor Who got me into coding as a kid in 1982 by idji · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The 5th Doctor story Castrovalva was based on "recursive occlusion" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... and taught me the basics to loops and recursion.

  4. Re:In time by idji · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Make them watch the 1982 Doctor Who story Castrovalva to learn about loops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

  5. Code.org by DrXym · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The code.org site is a great resource for teaching kids to program. Personally I'd have liked to see the BBC contribute their project to that where it would likely enjoy a lot more popularity.

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

    10 EXTERMINATE
    20 GOTO 10