wraggster
July 12th, 2009, 01:10
An anonymous reader writes
"Chris Wilson reviews Kodu, the new XBox game that he calls 'Logo on Steroids.' The game allows you to build a world and program every object in it with an in-house graphical language, making the game a primitive example of 'reactive state machines' in a 'multi-agent concurrent system.' It sounds like what we call 'application specific integrated circuits' in engineering, where every line of code runs in parallel.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/2124218/How-To-Teach-Programming-To-Kids-Via-Xbox
"Chris Wilson reviews Kodu, the new XBox game that he calls 'Logo on Steroids.' The game allows you to build a world and program every object in it with an in-house graphical language, making the game a primitive example of 'reactive state machines' in a 'multi-agent concurrent system.' It sounds like what we call 'application specific integrated circuits' in engineering, where every line of code runs in parallel.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/2124218/How-To-Teach-Programming-To-Kids-Via-Xbox