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concepts, developed by Danny Yaroslavski. ''Lightbot'' has been played 7 million times, and is highly rated on

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store.Light-Bot Teaches Computer Science With A Cute Little Robot And Some Symbol-Based Programming

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''Lightbot'' is available as an online Flash game, and an application for Android and

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, OpenFL The goal of ''Lightbot'' is to command a little robot to navigate a maze and turn on lights.

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, AUG. 27, 2014 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. While using such commands, players learn programming concepts like loops, procedures and more, without entering code in any

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