I have looked for games that incorporate programming or learning programming and I found few interesting gems. One is SCRATCH visual programming environment for kids made by MIT with sets of basic flow control and sprite sound and animation commands. I have tried some tricks with LOGO like pen drawing features using drag and drop interface and it looks intuitive and appealing enough to catch curious kids attention.
On the other hand I found less appealing low tech c-jump board game with goal of stepping through C like syntax simple arithmetic program. It is simple but still shows the concept of execution of sequenced commands with flow control.
The direction is promising for Microsoft, as they are developing KODU project, aiming at children too. The concept looks like interface for BPEL kind of language and probably in future that kind of environments will be more popular. You can find there links to more similar projects.
Blending gaming with simple programming may be a catch for working adults too.
On the other hand I found less appealing low tech c-jump board game with goal of stepping through C like syntax simple arithmetic program. It is simple but still shows the concept of execution of sequenced commands with flow control.
The direction is promising for Microsoft, as they are developing KODU project, aiming at children too. The concept looks like interface for BPEL kind of language and probably in future that kind of environments will be more popular. You can find there links to more similar projects.
Blending gaming with simple programming may be a catch for working adults too.
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