Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 10-year-old daughter, Jane.

In this episode, we review Light-bot, a programming puzzle game that uses game mechanics rooted in programming concepts. "Light-bot lets players gain a practical understanding of basic control-flow concepts like procedures, loops, and conditionals, just by guiding a robot with commands to light up tiles and solve levels."  It's $1.99 in the iTunes store and $2.99 in Google Play. You can also play it for free on the web.

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Apps for Kids 047: Light-Bot

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Apps for Kids 057: Mega Dead Pixel

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Apps for Kids 056

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Apps for Kids 055: Badland

Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 10-year-old daughter, Jane.
In this episode, we reviewed a bluetooth-enabled snap-together robot kit for kids called Pascal. It's made by Atoms and costs $119.
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Apps for Kids 047: Light-Bot

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