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by jtwaleson·5y ago·view on hn ↗
This holiday season I rebooted https://game.stackybird.com (try on desktop). It's a project I started years ago when my son was born to teach him the programming mindset. He's now 7 and it seems to be the right age. It teaches kids programming basics in a fun and gradual way. Right now there are only 6 levels, but I plan to have hundreds. Levels unlock instructions and with new instructions you can solve new levels, or old levels in a better way.

I'm not good at design so I picked the bird from flappy bird and the colors from 2048. I will probably need to change that. Also I started the project in 2014 and bought the domain in 2018, but now there's a trademarked app with the same name in the app store. Will probably need to change the name too.

Too bad this thread pops up now, next week the app would be more impressive ;)