Boku is Microsoft's new tool designed to help kids learn to program computers. Tool? It looks like a game. It uses a game controller as an interface - no typing, no text - and XNA.
Boku’s programming model is extremely simple as it does not use a textual language or wiring diagrams. Kids use simple behavior cards to enable a small virtual robot to navigate its world and achieve specific tasks.
The goal is to provide a gentle introduction to some of the foundational elements of creative programming to children who may not yet be ready for the complexity of classical computer languages.
The user is exposed to behavior arbitration, generality, representation of an abstract state, real-time experimentation and feedback, simulation, sensors, physics, and message passing.
It's pretty neat! "Let's play around a bit because that's what this is all about," says the Microsoft guy on stage. They've turned this around in 4 months, and they're about to start releasing it to kids to see how they want to tweak it...
Love it.
Rip off of Little Big Planet.
Posted by: | October 31, 2008 at 05:23
You are nearly 2 YEARS late mate! Look at the top of the page and see the date of the article before you start accusing M'soft of ripping off your "holy game".
Posted by: Therion | October 31, 2008 at 13:28
It looks sooo sh1t lol
Posted by: Jordan | October 31, 2008 at 13:31