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Podcast: By All Means
Episode: 82. Turing Tumble Founders Alyssa and Paul Boswell
Description: Chemist and professor Paul Boswell couldn’t get over how little his students knew about how computers work. He started building a three-dimensional model to teach programming and realized he could turn it into a game. Named for Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, Turing Tumble is basically a marble run that teaches people how to build computers—something no other game was doing at the time. Teachers and science nerds love it; kids of all ages will put down the screens to play with it.
But perhaps even more impressive than creating a mechanical computer both educational and...