Friendly robots make learning more fun in this program by Phil Tayler I have three young children who love to use the computer.! have loads of programs on the BBC which they can use, but nothing much for the Amstrad, so I've decided to write my own. Early number experience should be fun, so I have used a friendly little robot figure to give the concrete experience on screen, so that the child may count before entering the answer. The robots arc all identical, although they arc randomly coloured. If the answer given is correct, then there is a modest reward. If the answer isn't write, however, then there are "help screens" so that eventual success is assured. I have deliberately used meaningful names for my variables, and I have used copious REM statements, which might all take a few more minutes to type, but which surely save far more in the time spent debugging! Home Computing Weekly #112 | 
