Board game teaching children programming
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What to write on this day, if not about the game, which will allow you to raise young Steve Jobs or Ada Lovelace from your child.
Robot Turtles is a game from Google programmer Dan Shapiro.
It is designed for children from three to eight years old, and it is very easy to learn how to play. Your kids will not even suspect that during the game they will build real algorithms and learn the basics of programming.
One of the advantages of the game are very simple rules. Each child takes a turtle and a deck of cards for her. For the first game you need to exclude laser cards and functions from the decks.
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Then, on the playing field, you and the children build a labyrinth of special obstacle cards, and inside the labyrinth you also place the coveted turtle Crystal.
So in the first game we have three cards:
Turning cards are very easy to understand. Suffice it to say that turning the turtle to the left turns to the yellow flower, to the right to the lilac one, while right it goes to the blue one. These colors also appear in the border of the map.
In this form, the game could quickly bore children, so unlockable abilities and boosts were added to it, as in video games:
At the heart of the game is the programming language Logo. The Turtle Programming Language is not Turing complete, but it can awaken a child's love of programming.
The project started just like lightning. He collected $ 231,906 for ten days. This is a lot of board games without thumbnails on Kickstarter.
The price of the game starts at $ 29, but this option is for Americans. We will have to pay $ 40 + $ 20 for international shipping.
The awards also include lunch with the author of the project, Den Shapiro, as well as dinner with the founder and CEO of Cranium Inc. Richard Tayt and dinner with the creator of transmedia gaming and Chief Design Officer Xbox Entertainment Studios, Amy laureate Ilan Leah.
These are the children's charges at the children's game.
What to write on this day, if not about the game, which will allow you to raise young Steve Jobs or Ada Lovelace from your child.
Robot Turtles is a game from Google programmer Dan Shapiro.
It is designed for children from three to eight years old, and it is very easy to learn how to play. Your kids will not even suspect that during the game they will build real algorithms and learn the basics of programming.
about the project
One of the advantages of the game are very simple rules. Each child takes a turtle and a deck of cards for her. For the first game you need to exclude laser cards and functions from the decks.
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Then, on the playing field, you and the children build a labyrinth of special obstacle cards, and inside the labyrinth you also place the coveted turtle Crystal.
The game has only three rules:
- Turtle control cards can be laid out only one per turn.
- Every time the child puts a card - we move his bug.
- To win you need to reach the turtle treasure =)
So in the first game we have three cards:
- Left turn
- Right turn
- Move forward
Turning cards are very easy to understand. Suffice it to say that turning the turtle to the left turns to the yellow flower, to the right to the lilac one, while right it goes to the blue one. These colors also appear in the border of the map.
In this form, the game could quickly bore children, so unlockable abilities and boosts were added to it, as in video games:
- Ice walls
- Laser breaking through ice walls
- Stone walls impervious to laser
- The ability to lay out 2-3 cards of instructions for turtles at a time
- Debag program. Cards are laid out in a line, and only upon completion is the bug set off. Thus, the child will see an error only during the execution of the algorithm and will have to correct it.
- Map Functions of the frog. You can write a function from the cards. The function call will move the bug in a smaller number of moves.
At the heart of the game is the programming language Logo. The Turtle Programming Language is not Turing complete, but it can awaken a child's love of programming.
This game will be able to teach:
- Experiment
- Find bugs
- Use a finite number of operations to complete a task.
- To give the concept of the order of operations (Forward, forward, left is not Left, forward, forward)
- Program planning
- Functions and function optimization
- Kids present you with the computer they give commands to control the bugs.
About the campaign and awards
The project started just like lightning. He collected $ 231,906 for ten days. This is a lot of board games without thumbnails on Kickstarter.
The price of the game starts at $ 29, but this option is for Americans. We will have to pay $ 40 + $ 20 for international shipping.
The awards also include lunch with the author of the project, Den Shapiro, as well as dinner with the founder and CEO of Cranium Inc. Richard Tayt and dinner with the creator of transmedia gaming and Chief Design Officer Xbox Entertainment Studios, Amy laureate Ilan Leah.
These are the children's charges at the children's game.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/193610/
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