22-03-2015 17:30 via techradar.com

PC Gaming Week: How Minecraft is helping kids learn code one block at a time

Crafting codeIn turtles, the inability to stop walking in circles can indicate a serious health problem — from partial blindness to irreversible brain damage.It was habitual behaviour for one particular creature in 1969, but its American owners were far from concerned. That's because the turtle was a robot.Created by MIT, the Logo Turtle was a three-wheeled machine used to help teach the Logo Programming Language. Children could direct the Turtle, which resembled a moving dome, by inputting co
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