Mark Pesce writes about kids solving real world problems.
They create code (programming) but these days it’s not always necessarily about that. I think that makes sense. When I got into coding, it was quite hard to solve real world problems that way or interface with the real world. It’s actually just a reflection of where the hardware and related infrastructure was at – at that time.
Back then kids (or any people) explored computers and programming as a target in itself, not as a tool to be used. Obviously it was still a tool, but the primary use case was clearly different for those explorers (of which I was one).
My grade 4 son played this with me a few times, his feedback was it was too easy but fun,…
Brad