[casual_games] games that teach programming

[jamiecarlson at gmail.com]

I always liked using ColoBot, CeeBot, and Mind Rover for teaching basic concepts. Kids like the robots too, which helped.

http://programminggames.org/Colobot.ashx
http://programminggames.org/Ceebot.ashx
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindRover


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Jamie Carlson
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On Aug 5, 2011, at 10:57 PM, oscar is oscar <oscar.oscar.oscar at gmail.com> wrote:


> 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

>> freelance artist/IGDA Manila chairperson

>> portfolio - http://ryansumo.carbonmade.com/

>> blog - http://geekofalltrades.wordpress.com/

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>> ________________________________

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

>> To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List <casual_games at igda.org>

>> Sent: Saturday, August 6, 2011 8:55 AM

>> Subject: Re: [casual_games] games that teach programming

>> 

>> 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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