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what if blockland was used in schools for education?
nerraD:
--- Quote from: Port on December 24, 2012, 06:19:40 AM ---.. as long as you can forget everything about TorqueScript when you're finished
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bad habits, bad bad habits
Planr:
I tried recommending Blockland to my drafting teacher for educational use, since it related to architecture. She has this IT guy who reviews the games we suggest to make sure they are okay for use, and after months of waiting and waiting, I found out from her that the game got rejected by the entire school board or something and is banned in my school. Probably just because it has tanks and rockets and guns in it.
Our school's internet is censored really dumb-ishly, minecraft.net is totally blocked, yet the most frequently visited game sites by my class like adult swim games aren't.
Oh but I can access the forums here still there
Badger:
I was in tech class and I showed my teacher some of the stuff I made,
showing My "experience" with software designing, haha.
Altiris:
--- Quote from: Port on December 24, 2012, 06:19:40 AM ---While TorqueScript is a horrible language for serious development, Blockland seems like it would be a very good way to introduce people to programming whom know nothing beforehand.
.. as long as you can forget everything about TorqueScript when you're finished
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It's really that bad? What is a good game engine that had a good language with it? If you know any, one that is free.
fred da kiko:
Minecraft's redstone simulates wires, and on a large scale it can be used to replicate things such as computers while making them work the way they would work in real life. Blockland's eventing is basically proxy coding, using events to do what you want while never actually using code. Roblox could be used to teach code, but it's stuff, so classes are better off just going ahead and teaching kids how to code things.
Blockland could be used to teach problem solving and logic skills, as well as help autistic, handicapped, and other mentally disabled children. The issue is that blockland is slightly less accessible than minecraft, and it's a hell of a lot less stable. Blockland runs at a higher FPS on my computer than minecraft, but i can be sure minecraft is going to boot up and let me join a server, while chances are blockland won't authenticate with the master server until the third try, then there's all the sqlite errors and stuff that can forget you over while you're trying to join a server, which although the general solution is "set all your files to read & write" is still prevalent as that solution hasn't worked very well, at least not for me. Maybe my computer is a bitch, but let's remember, schools have desktops with lower specs than my laptop.