[casual_games] games that teach programming

[oscar is oscar]

Hi Dean.

Take a look at Game Star Mechanic.

Good Luck.

Osc

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Ryan Sumo <endlessthirteen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Dean,

> While I'm not a programmer so I can't vouch for how well this works as a

> teaching tool, the game Spacechem has been used in this manner before.

>  Might be something you can look into.

>

> Ryan Sumo

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> From: Dean Utian <d.utian at unsw.edu.au>

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> Jeff

>>Hi Dean (nice to see you online again - haven't seen you around much since

>> the Director days!),

> Hi Jeff,

> Good to see you too. Hope all is going well with you these days.

>

> Thanks for the reply. In terms of what I'm doing and looking for -

> - First, my students are going to be making games and will program elements

> of the game.

> - Before they delve into the production and programming of the game, I

> thought it would be a useful if they can get familiar with concepts of

> programming through playing a game. The idea would be if there is such a

> game that illustrates things like variables, conditional statements, loops.

> So, the players don't actually program as part of the game but are just

> immersed in key programming elements and concepts. Does such a game exist?

>

> Dean

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