Lightbot

Lightbot
DeveloperLightbot Inc.
PublisherBrad from code.org
DesignerDanny Yaroslavski
EngineOpenFL
PlatformsWeb, Android, iOS
Release2008
GenreEducational

Lightbot is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts, developed by Danny Yaroslavski. Lightbot has been played 7 million times, and is highly rated on iTunes and Google Play store. Lightbot is available as an online Flash game, and an application for Android and iOS mobile phones. Lightbot has been built with Flash and OpenFL.

A screenshot of Lightbot with robot (center) and command panel (right)

The goal of Lightbot is to command a little robot to navigate a maze and turn on lights. 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 programming language.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Developer Spotlight: Danny Yaroslavski Archived 2018-09-09 at the Wayback Machine, OpenFL
  2. ↑ Light-Bot Teaches Computer Science With A Cute Little Robot And Some Symbol-Based Programming Archived 2017-05-14 at the Wayback Machine, TechCrunch
  3. ↑ The Teacher's Awesome App Guide 1.5, John F. O'Sullivan Jr., 25-Oct-2014
  4. ↑ Research on E-Learning and ICT in Education, Springer, 20-Aug-2014
  5. ↑ "Lightbot Homepage". Archived from the original on 2015-01-10. Retrieved 2015-01-14.
  6. 1 2 3 Programming Apps Teach the Basics of Code, The New York Times, AUG. 27, 2014

See also