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Jon Udell and Matt MacLaurin on Boku

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Dec 10th, 2007 @ 4:52 PM
Boku is a programming development "game" for children that comes out of Microsoft Research (we took a look at Boku at TechFest '07.) It allows children, ages 5 and up, to apply programming elements and rudimentary scripts to characters in the Boku world.

Jon Udell spoke with Matt MacLaurin from Microsoft's Creative Systems Group and discusses more about Boku, the challenges of the project, how it works, and the importance of providing children with an expression tool for the critical thought required for programming. Read more about this interview on JonUdell.com or jump over to IT Conversations to listen to the full podcast (37 min, 17MB).
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TechFest '07: Boku : Video Games that teach you how to program!

Posted By: Laura Foy | Mar 20th, 2007 @ 3:47 PM
Boku is currently in pre beta stage but it's still incredibly impressive. It's a video game designed to teach children how to program. It runs off an xbox 360 controller and has adorable animations to keep the kids interested- but it teaches REAL programming from coding to debugging. The goal is to attract kids as young as 5 years old by exciting them about the concept and emotional experience of programming. If you have a kid (or perhaps are at the coding level of one) you're going to want to check out Boku!
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Integrated Palm Software and a Robotics Cell Seperator. Let's not forget C ++ and Python!

Posted By: Tina Wood | Jun 29th, 2006 @ 7:00 AM
I took a trip to Victoria, British Columbia and made a visit to StarFish Product Engineering.  A company who are true innovators in medical device development.  They do a lot of work in ultra sound and opthamology and use programming languages like C++ and Python.  And let me tell ya, the Canadians are just so sweet...as long as you say "Hockey" is the greatest sport ever!  :)
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