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by jacquesm 904 days ago
Neat! In the same spirit I'm trying to put together a minimalist gaming platform for kids that want to learn how to code. The gratification of a game is such that messing with the code if you have access to the source is a given and so far all my kids have taken to hacking on the games almost as fast as they did to playing them. Mission accomplished, nothing like seeing a 7 year old modifying a game and uploading it to a microcontroller, I didn't expect that end result but I'm very happy to take it.
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Sounds great! I could probably use it myself, I'm still learning the basics.
Neat, I am working on the thing right now and will soon post an article on how it is all put together. What really interests me is to lower the barrier to programming as far as possible but not to have it be some visual stuff where you click things together.