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Is there a link to this Karel the Robot exercise or is it a hand out?

We're in the amidst of creating something complimentary (different too) to Codecademy called http://CodePupil.com. We're eager to see different styles of teaching; especially examples where gaming is used!

As noted in the OP's article creating a new experience and especially one that teaches all the Elizabeth's how to code is a big challenge. We've been asking our friends like Elizabeths to test and then we reiterate. Also we've found Mechanical Turk to be helpful in re: to user testing feedback. There seems to be a lot of Liz's there.

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I highly recommend you check out all the exercise for the Stanford course: http://see.stanford.edu/see/materials/icspmcs106a/assignment... (the ones at the bottom, not the top). The reason the class was so much fun was because we got to make Breakout, Hangman, Yahtzee, and ended by creating a simple version of Facebook.

I too tried my hand at it in a side project: iheartpy.com

See if there's anything you find useful in it. Although, I think this comment needs to be someplace else.

Checked out iheartpy. Nice and interesting UI!

THough I wonder it asked me to sign in using my Google account. Is there an option to use the site further without signing in?

The application would have access to see your email address i.e. <paul's-id>@gmail.com

The app uses it to send a welcome message to users. Unfortunately that's the default minimum permission set granted by App Engine Users API. Further, I promise not to be evil:

      iheartpy.com/privacy.txt

Feel free to write to me for any feedback and/ or help.

       diwank@iheartpy.com

Whoa! Try zooming on the page (command+/- or control+/-). It's like watching a caterpillar walk.

I think this what you are looking for:

http://www.cs.mtsu.edu/~untch/karel/

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