programming 1: term 3: week 2: finch bots

We have created our first program today!  After learning about the development cycle, students used a block-based programming environment to program a maze.  When their user-controlled image sprite touches a border or obstacle, it goes back to the starting spot.  Students are going to use this same environment for the next few weeks to manipulate input and output of finch robots.  This is a simple style of programming that allows students to focus on the problem-solving aspect and fundamentals of programming.  This way, when we get to using Python later, the learning curve will be much more manageable.  It's been a lot of fun so far, but we are really starting to get to doing some cool things this week!