Solve Puzzles using Programming! LightBot is a puzzle game based on coding; it secretly teaches you programming logic as you play!

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The 'Hour of Code' is nationwide initiative by Computer Science Education Week [csedweek.org] and Code.org [code.org] to introduce millions of students to one hour of computer science and computer programming.

Lightbot offers an easy way for kids to learn concepts like loops, if-then statements, and the like without typing or coding.

In Lightbot, players program a robot using icons. But... does that mean players are learning 'real' programming?* *Spoiler: Yes Programming, or Coding, is simply the way people tell a computer what to do using instructions that the computer understands. Let's explore what this means by looking at the commands used in Lightbot.

An explanation of Lightbot and how it relates to teaching core programming skills and the basics of Computer Science. Includes high-level overviews as well as low-level technical terminology.

Students play the initial set of “Basic” levels in Lightbot. They will learn how to tell a computer what to do with a series of basic commands and gain the general process by which computer programs are written.

The goal of Lightbot is to, in each level, guide a robot to light up all the blue tiles in each level. To do so, you must ‘program’ the robot using a set of instructions.

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These solutions are meant to be used as a guide. Refrain from showing students a solution directly and encourage testing partial-solutions and using a “what-if-we-do-this” kind of hinting.