Techno Babble

Remember Scratch – a drag and drop programming paradigm from MIT?

If not refresh your memory at

http://www.kf12.com/blogs/techno/2007/11/drag-and-drop-programming/

or

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Well, now there’s something else, in a similar vein, Kodu from Microsoft Research. (Based on Boku – here’s a Boku report from March 2007)

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/03/microsoft_resea.html

Kodu is a a visual programming language which has been designed for creating games by children. It runs on the Xbox and uses the game controller for input.

Kodu - Visual Programming

Using a simple language, which is entirely icon-based, programs are broken down into rules which are further divide into conditions and actions.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/

There’s a video of an interview with Matthew MacLaurin the man behind Kodu

CES 2009 Matthew MacLaurin on Kodu

Kodu will be available for download from the XBox Live Community Games channel.

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