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by prof_hobart
5213 days ago
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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. |
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(http://pantherprogramming.weebly.com/)