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There was an iOS game out about 5-ish years ago where you did essentially this. You had a robot on a small grid/map with a start and end point. The objective was to get the robot from the start to the end. You had a set of icons/commands, each one indicating a different instruction (step forward, turn left, turn right, jump, etc) that you used to navigate the robot. Successfully completing each map unlocked a more challenging map with more steps and obstacles to avoid.

It also gave you a way to combine a set of instructions into what was essentially a function/method so that you could then call the function/method instead of retyping all the steps. My kid was too young at the time but now that he's older I can't find it or it was never updated.

Anyone happen to know of this app, or something similar?




Lightbot. My kids liked the free version.


That's it, thanks! Also looks like they've updated it considerably. I'm going to stick my kid in front of this and see how long it sticks.




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