ChipWits – learning to program iconically

I fondly remember a program called ‘ChipWits’ – a game that we played at UTS on the old Classic Macs. Naturally, I am not the only one.

I’ve never been able to dig up a copy of that program, however it seems a similar project is now available as donationware … I found it in the REALbasic Design Awards for 2005.

The program is called ‘RobotProg’ and is available for Windows or Mac OS X.

“Program a virtual robot with a flowchart : first you draw the flowchart, then you run the program and watch the robot executing your program. With RobotProg you can learn programming bases by means of gradual levels. At the last level, you may program several robots playing games on the same ground.”

P.S. It seems there may be a place to download the original, now. Although old hardware seems the best way to run it.