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Re:iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Lit... by WrtCdEvrydy on Thursday July 30, 2020 @04:51AM (#23995995)
The issue here is really that you can't get the kids excited about software unless it does something in the real world.
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Re:iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Lit... by dgellow on Thursday July 30, 2020 @04:54AM (#23996014)
That’s so untrue. Kids love creating logical gates in Minecraft.

Show a kid how to create a small game and they quickly fall in love with software.

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