Linked by weildish on Wed 14th Jan 2009 18:49 UTC
Microsoft Research has been working on a new gimmick for XBox Live subscribers, something called "Kodu" that allows kids (and parents, perhaps?) to design their own games without prior knowledge of programming, and all done on the XBox console.
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Member since:2005-07-01
I am tired of real programming anyways 
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. Yeah, why can't real programming be like this? Why on earth are we still hand-editing text files to produce code? When I first started to learn programming I sort of assumed that syntax errors would be a thing of the past by now.
If one aspect of computers has advanced over the last twenty years, it's the interface. Yet we're not making use of these advances to improve the experience of programming. Give me something like this for building web apps and I'll be a happy man.
Member since:2006-02-25
If one aspect of computers has advanced over the last twenty years, it's the interface. Yet we're not making use of these advances to improve the experience of programming. Give me something like this for building web apps and I'll be a happy man.
Try Tersus:
http://www.tersus.com/
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More information can be found here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/
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as well as a good review on Ars: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090108-microsoft-trains-next...
overall I think this is something that is really cool. I am all about finding new ways to interact with the machine. I am tired of real programming anyways