Lightbot

<i>Lightbot</i>

Lightbot

2008 educational video game

Lightbot is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts, developed by Danny Yaroslavski. Lightbot has been played 7 million times, and is highly rated on iTunes and Google Play store.[2][3][4] Lightbot is available as an online Flash game, and an application for Android and iOS mobile phones.[5] Lightbot has been built with Flash and OpenFL.[1]

A screenshot of Lightbot with robot (center) and command panel (right)
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The goal of Lightbot is to command a little robot to navigate a maze and turn on lights.[6] Players arrange symbols on the screen to command the robot to walk, turn, jump, switch on a light and so on. The maze and the list of symbols become more complicated as the lessons progress.[6] While using such commands, players learn programming concepts like loops, procedures and more, without entering code in any programming language.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Developer Spotlight: Danny Yaroslavski, OpenFL
  2. [2]
    Light-Bot Teaches Computer Science With A Cute Little Robot And Some Symbol-Based Programming, TechCrunch
  3. [3]
    The Teacher's Awesome App Guide 1.5, John F. O'Sullivan Jr., 25-Oct-2014
  4. [4]
    Research on E-Learning and ICT in Education, Springer, 20-Aug-2014
  5. [5]
    Lightbot Homepage
  6. [6]
    Programming Apps Teach the Basics of Code, The New York Times, AUG. 27, 2014

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