Recently in OLPC, we’ve been working on a program called Tidepool. Tidepool is a program created by Tim Falconer, who wanted to create a program that was fun and addicting to teach kids how to code. To do that he has tried to make a game as "addictive" as Minecraft, which is a highly popular kid’s game. There are building houses, flying avatars, sketching characters, and much more. In class we’ve played around with the program trying to figure out how it works. In the beginning we had a lot of trouble with it, but then we found tutorial videos that Tim, the creator, made and have been figuring out our way through the program really well.
This program has taught me that I have more patience than I thought. When given a program that you know nothing about, it can be very frustrating, and you can get even more frustrated when there are bugs and problems with the game. Throughout it all, I waited, stayed calm, and let the problems fix themselves.
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