That's amazing! I would have loved something like this when I was growing up. If you can do that simple games would be no problem, and who doesn't dream of making their own games.
It's absolutely brilliant for kids - and it seems to be avaialble on Linux, so should be runnable on Raspberry Pi - which could be great for the classroom. It's so easy to add new little bits of functionality and see them in action that she never got bored whilst I was showing her the basics - in fact it seems to be her new favourite app at the moment. I can't recommend it highly enough as a first step programming educational tool (the reason I was first looking at it was because my wife's a teacher and was looking at a good app to teach programming to 10 year olds).
It's certainly possible to write very simple games. The tutorial I gave my daughter was a (very clunky) Space Invaders clone, and I'm going to have a go at something a little more advanced tonight - I've got to make sure she doesn't start overtaking me...
The one place it seems to fall down a little is managing multiple identical sprites - I looked at a rather more professional-looking Space Invaders that someone else had written and it looks like they needed a separate sprite with full code behind it for every single alien, although it looks like BYOB may address some of this.
It's certainly possible to write very simple games. The tutorial I gave my daughter was a (very clunky) Space Invaders clone, and I'm going to have a go at something a little more advanced tonight - I've got to make sure she doesn't start overtaking me...
The one place it seems to fall down a little is managing multiple identical sprites - I looked at a rather more professional-looking Space Invaders that someone else had written and it looks like they needed a separate sprite with full code behind it for every single alien, although it looks like BYOB may address some of this.