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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.cite-ref-tc-2-0[2]cite-ref-3[3]cite-ref-4[4] Lightbot is available as an online Flash game, and an application for Android and iOS mobile phones.cite-ref-5[5] Lightbot has been built with Flash and OpenFL.cite-ref-openflr-1-2[1]

The goal of Lightbot is to command a little robot to navigate a maze and turn on lights.cite-ref-nyt-6-0[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.cite-ref-nyt-6-1[6] While using such commands, players learn programming concepts like loops, procedures and more, without entering code in any programming language.cite-ref-nyt-6-2[6]

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cite-note-openflr-11. Developer Spotlight: Danny Yaroslavski Archived 2018-09-09 at the Wayback Machine, OpenFL

cite-note-tc-22. ↑ Light-Bot Teaches Computer Science With A Cute Little Robot And Some Symbol-Based Programming, TechCrunch

cite-note-33. ↑ The Teacher's Awesome App Guide 1.5, John F. O'Sullivan Jr., 25-Oct-2014

cite-note-44. ↑ Research on E-Learning and ICT in Education, Springer, 20-Aug-2014

cite-note-55. ↑ Lightbot Homepage

cite-note-nyt-66. ↑ Programming Apps Teach the Basics of Code, The New York Times, AUG. 27, 2014

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