http://alt-games.com/2006/05/22/games-4-girls-winners-online-boys-can-play-too/ contrarian game culture Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:18:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://alt-games.com/2006/05/22/games-4-girls-winners-online-boys-can-play-too/#comment-9 Wed, 31 May 2006 00:37:05 +0000 http://alt-games.com/2006/05/22/games-4-girls-winners-online-boys-can-play-too/#comment-9 [...] In addition to mainstream games and indy games, like the games designed by girls, a number of designing tools, including new ways to learn programming are in production. Many are aimed at interesting atypical programmers. Projects like Mary Flanagan’s Rapunsel Project, which aims to build a software environment to teach programming concepts to kids. Similarly, Carnegie Mellon University’s Alice Project aims “to provide the best possible first exposure to programming for students ranging from middle schoolers to college students.” Alice seems to be doing quite well, especially with one textbook already out and another set to come out later this year. [...] […] In addition to mainstream games and indy games, like the games designed by girls, a number of designing tools, including new ways to learn programming are in production. Many are aimed at interesting atypical programmers. Projects like Mary Flanagan’s Rapunsel Project, which aims to build a software environment to teach programming concepts to kids. Similarly, Carnegie Mellon University’s Alice Project aims “to provide the best possible first exposure to programming for students ranging from middle schoolers to college students.” Alice seems to be doing quite well, especially with one textbook already out and another set to come out later this year. […]

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