Lightbot Jr : Coding Puzzles
Lightbot Junior is specifically designed for ages 4-8, and is an easier version of the popular Lightbot: featuring a gentler learning curve and less complex puzzles. You can play as Boybot or Girlbot as you solve puzzles that use game mechanics that are rooted in Computer Science concepts.
Lightbot Junior lets players gain a practical understanding of basic concepts like writing instructions, debugging problems, simple procedures and loops, just by guiding a robot with commands to light up tiles and solve levels.
Teachers worldwide are choosing Lightbot first out of other games and software when introducing their students to programming.
Lightbot Junior features 42 levels and lets you play in English, French, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Norwegian, Slovenian, Romanian, Indonesian, German, Polish, Danish, Croatian, Dutch, Slovak, Czech, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Thai, Hindi or Swedish! Just hit the associated flag icon on the main screen to select a language!
Lightbot JR now features multiple save slots and separate progress tracking for multiple players. Multiple players can advance at their own pace in their own save slot, and also compete on number of levels finished, number of stars collected and number of overall commands used to complete the game (Lower score=better)
1: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/technology/personaltech/get-cracking-on-learning-computer-code.html2: http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/26/light-bot-teaches-computer-science-with-a-cute-little-robot-and-some-symbol-based-programming/3: http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2015/01/05/code-and-college-readiness-are-reinventing-education-on-30-under-30/
Category : Puzzle
Reviews (28)
I love this simple and really fun game. And that it really teaches proper programming concepts without having to be able to read.
🥇🥇🥇🏅🏅🏅🏆🎖I love it when I get a chance to win. Hi there baby! Good luck with the shower! Hah! Just JOKING around! MY TOP IS 50 STARS!
My 4 year old daughter got the hang of it really quickly. She loves that game.
Doesn't work on a10 samsung.
amazing first intro to programming
just so much yes and brain hurts for my 4-year old
Please add to family library
boring!!! please update it
My daughter really enjoys this game and I love how well it is preparing her brain for learning a programming language. I would have given it 5 stars if only it would save her progress across devices. Between my wife and I both having a tablet and a smart phone, plus my daughter using an old tablet, it would be nice if she could just play on whatever device is convenient, but it is really frustrating for her to have to complete the same levels over and over again.
This is a awesome game for my 5 years old kid. But as someone said already it's quite short ( it took just a three hours to finish the whole game to my kid ) and it would be nice to have a step by step or a slow down replay so the kid understand better the concept when replayed.
I got quite excited about this and by 6 year old boy enjoyed it, but jou dont get much more for the paid version - it really needs more levels. It is a shame that users aren't given the opportunity to create their own levels.
My 7 y.o. daughter and 5 y.o. son instantly fell in love with this "game." In so glad I got it for them.
My children, 4-8-year-old, get quickly absorbed in coding and I am so pleased they spend time on such a valuable thing.
This stuff is so cool, although my 5yo kid got lost when the requirement of procedures arised at a point. Still a gem.
Great game but glitch in level 5.6 prevents me from finishing the level. Please fix!
[1] Can anyone tell me how to solve the very last stage? It looks unsolvable. [2] It will be nice if we got a printable certificate when we solve the last stage.
10/10 this should be part of a voting test.
Lost a star because it was to easy and to short of a game
4/5 year old loved it and finished it... we used it as a component of her computer science class... can't wait to start the full program! Thanks developers... This should be a part of every kids game rotation.
Very nice app for study of programming basics
My 3yo is learning to program and having fun!
I almost screamed when I saw it😇😆☺😊😀😁😄😃😘😸😻💩
My kids love it!
Whole family loves it!
My 7 year old completed the game in less than 3 hours. I think the concept is excellent and it is a great way to introduce a child to programming but you should have at least twice the amount of puzzles.
Option to slow robot or step by step to see code working better....
Except maybe overloading which doesn't seem clear to my kid, it is a great app.
WAY too fast for young children! The concept is good, but the commands go way too quickly with too much going on at once. If this was my app, I would have a "one step at a time" speed that highlights individual commands as they're sent to the lightbot, with a pause between each command. (Like have each command pop up to centre screen, fade, then act.) As it is, my 4 y.o. daughter is having a hard time making the connection between the commands and the actions... That's sort of the whole point!