Sure, but the project proposed try to bring more fun to teaching kids about programming and to keep their interest. I remember when I was 10 and had my first contact with a computer, the legendary Commodore 64, all the wonders I learn that time made me a wannabe programmer, guess what? now it's my profession and hobby, I enjoy it so much that I can't think of me doing anything else. In the begining I learn everything about basic, then I discovered the inmense power of assembler and a whole new universe of possibilities. Later I joined a scene group here in Peru and we made some game intros, SID players, we even fix some pal games to run on ntsc computers, we also made a magdisk with 6 issues. Nothing of that could be possible without an inquisitive mind and teamwork, something rare in now days. It's amazing when we look back on our old metods and realize that we used to apply stuff like scrum development or task management that today has fancy names, but are fundamentaly the same 30 years ago when we were kids.
I was aware of that in the moment. We were tree teachers, and made a common quiz for all our students (it was a hard decision to take, but we agree at last), because we show them similar examples and we knew they were ready for something like that, it was the final test.
I kwow perfectly what you mean, my personal experience starts as a business programmer. It's boring, that's why I made my decision to leave anything business oriented in the past and try something new like game development. In this new enterprise I'm learning again, I wanted to show a game for the competition, but still developing it, it takes me more time than expected but in the end I didn't regret to miss the deadline. Eventually the game will be completed, and will post it here for your enjoyment and comments.
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