Intro to programing-ish game: Human Resource Machine

Anthony Radzykewycz anthony.radzykewycz at gatewaycc.edu
Wed May 4 18:47:55 MST 2016


Have you checked out 'The Foos'? I am using that to introduce my 5-year-old
to the beginnings of programming.

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> The Humble Bundle has some really good games in it right now, but the one
> that caught my eye is by the makers of World of Goo, called Human Resource
> Machine.  It's a game where you have to write programs using very basic
> steps to direct a human to take things from an inbox and put it into an
> outbox with various processing in between.  It really makes you think about
> the process of doing things and gets you into a programing mind set.  It
> can also teach little guys to know their math inside and out since it will
> have you doing stuff like multiplying numbers when all you can do is add.
>
> Even if your kids don't like it, it's a really fun game that I've been
> playing like crazy the last couple of days.
>
> Get it while you still can.  The Humble bundle only has a couple of days
> left on it.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
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