LightBot Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Screen-free coding for children: the xylophone maze

  My daughter and I play "dadbot" where I'm the robot and she has to give me clear instructions on what I should do. It started after I showed her https://lightbot.com/ but we like the "screen-free" nature of dadbot better. Eventually she jumps on my back and the game doesn't last much longer because dadbot gets tired. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Are there any games you recommend that teach programming?

  There was a cool flash browser game... I believe I played an early version pre-2010... But the main lightbot site says 2014. Source: 12 months ago

• do you know any coding games similar to this one from Google?

  This game looks like a clone of LightBot, a popular Flash game from back in the day. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is there anything a beginner should before trying to learn c#?

  Another good game for programmer students is Lightbot. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Swift Playgrounds 4

  That gem collection game looks like a fairly direct rip-off of https://lightbot.com/ If you have kids that you'd like introduce to some programming concepts in a fun way, I highly recommend it. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How do I get my brother intro programming?

  This sounds like https://lightbot.com/. This app really helped my son think through problem solving sequentially before moving on to Scratch https://scratch.mit.edu/. Since Op's brother is an adult he may be better served with a Raspberry Pi, which is not quite as "cutesy", but can still be interfaced with a drag and drop programming language like Scratch. Then one can graduate to more advanced projects. Check out... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago