How To Teach Programming To Kids, Via XBox 124
An anonymous reader writes "Chris Wilson reviews Kodu, the new XBox game that he calls 'Logo on Steroids.' The game allows you to build a world and program every object in it with an in-house graphical language, making the game a primitive example of 'reactive state machines' in a 'multi-agent concurrent system.' It sounds like what we call 'application specific integrated circuits' in engineering, where every line of code runs in parallel."
Just say NO to Logo on steriods (Score:5, Funny)
Your turtle shrinks.
Need reading glasses (Score:4, Funny)
I first read the article title as How To Program Kids Via XBOX.
That would have gotten me right into console gaming.
Re:This isn't programming. (Score:5, Funny)
programming thanks to ZZT
Cos every girl's crazy 'bout a C#-dressed man.
Re:Just say NO to Logo on steriods (Score:1, Funny)
OH GOD NO! Not my turtle!! It is already tiny as it is!
If that tiny thing gets any smaller, atoms will start bullying it!
Re:adults? (Score:4, Funny)
There are plenty of toys for adults
There are indeed.
Re:programming without typing? (Score:3, Funny)
"10 PRINT "HELLO "; ...and brought me 28 years later where I am now."
20 GOTO 10
You are still in the loop?