Game Box Programmers - during this holiday season have certainly spent hours playing with the classic board games, which almost certainly during the rest of the year have less attention.
Monopoly, Risk, Trivial Pursuit and who knows how many other masterpieces of games, I show you what is new, very exclusive and impossible to find here in Italy, will be the perfect gadget for all the geeks , or at least for their children.
It is called c-jump, and is a board game designed for children from aged 11 years and that will help you learn the basics of programming. It 'made starting from the program code of a real computer and allow you to get started in this wonderful world, teaching basic concepts such as the use of if, else, switch, and the concept of variable x.
And 'in English, but in the end could not be otherwise because that is the language of computers, if you decide to take your children for up to help them to translate the instructions and understand the simple mechanics.
Despite the odd theme for a board game the rest is normal and canonical, a board, four pieces (you can play from two to four players) and nuts.
Game box programmers, Each game lasts 30 minutes, a time I would say perfect, not too short and does not require even to the long grueling sessions that can be boring. And for a game training is very important.
You can find it on thinkgeek.com