BBC Creates Doctor Who Game To Teach Kids Programming Skills

There seems to be a growing consensus in which many believe that teaching children to program at a young age is a good idea for the future. We’ve seen apps created to do that and even President Obama has agreed that teaching programming courses in high school is a good idea and one that might be a necessity.

That being said, if you’re looking to teach your kids how to program in a fun manner, you might be interested to learn that the BBC and BBC Doctor Who Interactive have come up with a game that will not only be fun for kids to play, but will teach them the basics of programming at the same time.

We expect this will appeal to Doctor Who fans as well since the game will introduce a new story written by Phil Ford and will also feature voice narration from Peter Capaldi, the current Doctor Who. Dubbed “The Doctor and the Dalek”, the game is aimed at those aged 6-12 and will see player freeing a Dalek from Cybermen.

There will puzzles players will be tasked to solve which will be based on programming elements taught in the new English computing curriculum. The game is web-based and is expected to be launched on the 22nd of October via the CBBC website.

Tyler Lee
Categories: Gaming
Tags: Education