Dinos love gems

A fun game that explores programming concepts by moving dinosaurs around in a board game.

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Dinos love gems

What & why

Programming and writing code has a very specific logic & flow—one step after the other in order.

Computers are stupid: we need to tell them exactly what to do.

Understanding how to speak computer is important for writing JavaScript code.

Set up

  1. Form into pairs
  2. Get a game board package
  3. Get a pencil to write on the sticky notes
    Don’t write on the game board—I want to reuse them
  4. Set up the game board as explained

Don’t look ahead—the answers are in here!

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Dinos love gems

A fun game that explores programming concepts by moving dinosaurs around in a board game.