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Lightbot

Developer	Lightbot Inc.^[1]
Publisher	Brad from code.org
Designer	Danny Yaroslavski^[1]
Engine	OpenFL
Platforms	Web, Android, iOS
Release	2008
Genre	Educational

Lightbot is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts, developed by Danny Yaroslavski. Lightbot has been played 7 million times, and is highly rated on iTunes and Google Play store.^[2]^[3]^[4] Lightbot is available as an online Flash game, and an application for Android and iOS mobile phones.^[5] Lightbot has been built with Flash and OpenFL.^[1]

A screenshot of *Lightbot* with robot (center) and command panel (right)

The goal of Lightbot is to command a little robot to navigate a maze and turn on lights.^[6] Players arrange symbols on the screen to command the robot to walk, turn, jump, switch on a light and so on. The maze and the list of symbols become more complicated as the lessons progress.^[6] While using such commands, players learn programming concepts like loops, procedures and more, without entering code in any programming language.^[6]

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1 2 3 Developer Spotlight: Danny Yaroslavski Archived 2018-09-09 at the Wayback Machine, OpenFL
↑ Light-Bot Teaches Computer Science With A Cute Little Robot And Some Symbol-Based Programming Archived 2017-05-14 at the Wayback Machine, TechCrunch
↑ The Teacher's Awesome App Guide 1.5, John F. O'Sullivan Jr., 25-Oct-2014
↑ Research on E-Learning and ICT in Education, Springer, 20-Aug-2014
↑ "Lightbot Homepage". Archived from the original on 2015-01-10. Retrieved 2015-01-14.
1 2 3 Programming Apps Teach the Basics of Code, The New York Times, AUG. 27, 2014

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