Reddit Reddit reviews ThinkFun Robot Turtles STEM Toy and Coding Board Game for Preschoolers - Made Famous on Kickstarter, Teaches Programming Principles to Preschoolers

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ThinkFun Robot Turtles STEM Toy and Coding Board Game for Preschoolers - Made Famous on Kickstarter, Teaches Programming Principles to Preschoolers
Trusted by Families Worldwide - With over 50 million sold, ThinkFun is the world's leader in brain and logic games.Develops critical skills – Gameplay provides a stealth learning experience, where players learn key programming princples in a fun, easy to learn way. Inspired by the Logo programming language, Robot Turtles lets kids ages 4 and up write programs with playing cards.What you get - Robot Turtles is one of ThinkFun's best games for kids ages 4 and up. It was designed by programming expert Dan Shapiro and was the most-backed board game in Kickstarter history when first released. For 2-5 players, includes What you get cardboard and cardstock components.Clear instructions – Easy to learn with a clear, high quality instruction manual. You can start playing immediately!Parents and children play together - Robot Turtles was designed for parents and children to have a fun play experience together, which makes this preschool game a great gift for either parents or boys and girls ages 4 and up.
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9 Reddit comments about ThinkFun Robot Turtles STEM Toy and Coding Board Game for Preschoolers - Made Famous on Kickstarter, Teaches Programming Principles to Preschoolers:

u/dameon5 · 526 pointsr/atheism

I disagree that it should be mandatory. There should be reasonable exceptions to any rule. My niece is homeschooled. But she is currently 7 years old and her mother has a master's degree in education. The reason she is homeschooled is because my brother has a job that requires him to travel a great deal. So by homeschooling, the family gets to be together more.

My seven year old niece currently reads at a much higher grade level than she would be exposed to in public school (barring an accelerated program) and is also proficient in math and science (relative to her age of course).

For Christmas, I just bought her board games that teach programming and scientific concepts and both her and her parents loved them. And in her short life she has seen more of the world and been to more museums and historical places than I have at 39.

I have also talked to my brother and his wife about how they plan on handling her education as she gets older and they both admit that, as she gets older, they both believe they will need to place her in an actual school to ensure she gets a well-rounded education. But if she continues to learn at the rate she is now, there is some concern around her transition.

EDIT - Lots of folks asking about what board games. The ones I bought her this year are...


Gravity Maze


Code Masters Programming Logic Game

A few years ago I got her


Robot Turtles




I wanted to buy her this, but it was on back order and would not have arrived while she was visiting. I showed it to my brother and he told me to definitely keep that in mind for her birthday or Christmas next year.

u/wildleaf · 30 pointsr/shutupandtakemymoney

So, this is just like Robot Turtles but with a tiny, actual robot. Saves you $200, and you just have to move the pieces yourself.

I set up my 9 year old with super complex single player maps and she loves it. Has played it off and on since 4.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00HN2BXUY/

This robot is cool too though!

u/paulcosmith · 1 pointr/ProgrammerHumor

Sorry, had to find out from the girl's mother in Germany.

It's <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HN2BXUY">Robot Turtles</a>.

u/ObviouslyAnnie · 1 pointr/SantasLittleHelpers

My 4-year-old son is very mature too and easily gets bored with typical toys for his age group. I totally recommend the Robot Turtles board game! It teaches children the ins and outs of programing (coding). My son plays it obsessively at his cousin's house. I guarantee your son will be hooked once he tries it. Plus NO BATTERIES! Bonus!!!

u/dweezil22 · 1 pointr/webdev

I suppose I'm more optimistic about kids, regardless of how seamless tech is. I'm a child of the 80's and back then the concept of give and take with digital logic was practically non-existent. When I was young (less than 10 I'm sure) my dad asked me how I would teach a robot to walk to my neighbor's house. "Walk to my neighbors house" "No, you can only tell him to step with his right and left feet" "Step left, step right" etc. A spent probably 5 mins offering simplistic solutions that he shot down by having us run through the script and realize my robot bumped into a tree, or a dog knocked it over, etc. That conversation forever changed how I thought about computer programming.

Nowadays kids TV has more logic in it. Kids games are being explicitly setup to teach logic. Things like Minecraft go a huge way. Older practical tech like inbox rules or Excel spreadsheets has basic scripting and programming built in. A lot more kids will grow up absorbing these sorts of lessons. Hell I played a board game with my 3 year old daughter that was that robot story in friendlier packaging.

u/learningstem · 1 pointr/stepparents

I would definitely agree with Snap Circuits. They delight my BD3 (who may understand at best the very basics), and I expect that it will serve more of a learning purpose in future years.

Two other suggestions which are both logic/coding based but may appeal to a child with budding STEM interest:

  • Makey Makey: I've used this with children ages 6-18 and generally get the same excited responses regardless of age. With older children, I tend to use as a way to introduce to "real" electronics. You can combine with Scratch, so she can design her own games/programs. Feel free to shoot me a message if you want to ask questions about this.

  • Robot Turtles: I've not used this personally, but I've only heard positive things about it from friends and colleagues who have played with their children
u/level1gamer · 1 pointr/Parenting

5 is pretty young to learn coding. You could try scratch, but that may be a bit beyond him.

There is a board game called Robot Turtles that I play with my girls. It teaches some programming concepts in a board game.

u/pseudo_lemon · 1 pointr/learnpython

Do you mean that you want to know why coding is important? Or do you want to know to learn how to code in a way that you physically feel and understand what you're writing?

I feel like it's the latter, there are a few different ways you can approach this.

  1. If you want to learn how to think in specific sequences, you can buy this Robot Turtles board game. It's fairly rudimentary, but you learn about why order matters and how to think about some task as a set of actions and loops.

  2. Similar to Robot Turtles, Alice simplifies the coding process with the purpose of creating 3D animations, stories and video games. It's still rather simple, but that's purposeful to remove much of the overhead so you just are thinking about what actions need to happen to create what I want.

  3. If you are fine with using a full programming language and the problems you've been doing, but are confused by magic box that is just running code, then something like Python Tutor will help. Python Tutor helps you slow down the execution and lets you go step by step to and follow along with exactly what's happening in your code (similar to using a debugger for those who already know how to use one). And it lets you do this in more than just Python. It has most of the programming languages you'll encounter (Python, Ruby, C, C++, Java, Javascript, Typescript).

    Best of luck on your journey.
u/LLJKCicero · 1 pointr/sanfrancisco

> Just curious what you can teach a 5 year old that qualifies as computer science.

https://www.amazon.com/Think-Fun-1900-Robot-Turtles/dp/B00HN2BXUY

Maybe a stretch to call it computer science, but you can teach "thinking algorithmically". I play this game with my four year old.