Tinkerblocks
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Turn your iPad into a timer, fortune teller or motion-sensing camera with this potentially powerful but hard-to-learn visual coding system. This app comes from Germany, and is the second experience app of this variety we've seen -- the first is The Everything Machine by Tinybop. Of the two, The Everything Machine is easier to learn and has more power. But don't discount what this app can do. Here's how it works. The screen is split into two parts. Commands (represented by tiles) are shown on the left side, and are grouped into four categories. It takes some time to learn what the commands do because the icons are non-conventional, and there are no direct print labels. But you soon figure out that each block represents some sort of action.
$2.99, iPad
Teaches: programming, coding
CTR Rating: 72%