Raj Sidhu_is a designer, Web developer, and creator of_Code Monkey Island, a board game that introduces kids to programming fundamentals. I felt pretty jealous as I walked into the computer room of the elementary school I was visiting. The hulking PCs of my youth – with their giant floppy disk drives and 8-bit copies of Oregon Trail – were nowhere to be seen. Instead, children were happily tapping away at Photoshop and playing Web games on pristine, wafer-thin iMacs. I had come to the school to have a group of kids play-test_Code Monkey Island_- a board game I had designed...

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