![]() ![]() IOS Version: The minimum iOS version required is 15 As a result, we are unable to provide technical support for these models. However, they will not receive new updates or content and if you delete the app, you will not be able to download it again. ![]() If you have previously downloaded Osmo apps on one of these devices, they should continue to work. *The tablets listed are no longer compatible, no longer being supported, and are considered obsolete by Apple. You’ll find it in the Apple Store beginning today-which, by the way, will make Zekelman, its 23-year-old designer, the youngest person to have a product featured there.We will continue updating Osmo software to work with new iPad models as they are released. Osmo Coding costs $49 for the game, or $98 if you haven’t already bought the camera attachment and iPad base station too. “That was one of the goals, that the language could be used across the platform,” Zekelman says. Additional and advanced sets of blocks may be introduced over time, and this first set could be used for upcoming Osmo games. The concept is intended to be as modular as the unique blocks used to play it-it's all just blocks of code, after all. Once the game hits the market, Osmo hopes the blocks become a platform unto themselves. They always just go ahead and build something, and it’s open-ended.” You never have to teach a kid how to build with Legos. You don’t have to push anyone to learn coding, they’ll just want to do it on their own. “We think there’s sort of a ‘Lego coding’ concept that’s missing, the kind of product that gets kids excited about it. He sees Osmo Coding as a fun introduction to the thinking and logic of computer science, while teaching more complex ideas as the game goes along. “There’s a lot of talk about coding being the next essential learning experience for children,” says Osmo CEO and co-founder Pramod Sharma. That helps make the game more accessible to young kids who speak any language, and the hands-on aspects of arranging and experimenting with the blocks make it more engaging. Other than the numbers on a few of them, there’s no text on the blocks. One useful block looks like a repeat button on a music player and lets kids loop chunks of code, and you can twist parts of the blocks to send Awbie in a new direction. You snap together numbered blocks along with commands such as “run,” “jump,” and “grab,” as you guide a tiny monster named Awbie on his eternal quest for more strawberries. Osmo Coding begins with an assortment of modular magnetic blocks. We wanted to literally make those building blocks that can teach kids how to think about it.” Now, Zekelman and Hu both work at Osmo full-time. That’s what we tried to teach, that it’s a way of thinking and a way of problem-solving. My epiphany was that coding isn’t difficult, it’s really just a way of thinking. "As I was designing this," Zekelman says, "I was learning to code. The initial version of their game was called Strawbies, and looks a lot like it does today. Zekelman, an industrial designer, and engineer Hu tried to bring tangible-learning research into the real world of programming. The game started as Ariel Zekelman and Felix Hu's student project at the Tangible Interaction Design and Learning (TIDAL) Lab at Northwestern University. ![]()
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