Video Gamestar Mechanic Teaches Kids to Write Their Own Computer Games (Video) 55
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In this video, Brian Alspach tells you how Gamestar Mechanic helps turn kids from game players into game authors, which helps them learn a lot about programming and how computers work in easy steps while having a good time. If you're a parent, you'll especially want to read this page on their site, which will help reassure you that these folks know what they're doing, and might even (hint hint) give you the idea of suggesting that your local school should subscribe to Gamestar Mechanic, which several thousand schools already do. The price varies between free and $6 per month, which is a great deal for something that can engage children for many hours every day -- and just might keep a parent or grandparent interested, too.
Slashvertisement or the downfall of slashdot (Score:0, Insightful)
seriously ... it's so obvious and this has been happening way too often recently. For years they were the infamous networkworld, inforworld, shitworld and myassworld and now this ...
It makes me really think when I'll have something news worthy what are really the odds of getting truly slashdoted by real people like me ...
I'll probably stick to google news from now on.
Can Slashdot bloggers be bribed? (Score:1, Insightful)