Our first steps in learning about programming involved us going outside, where we took on the role of robot-pirates to work out a sequence of instructions (an algorithm). Once we found our way to the shovel, we knew that we had found the buried treasure.

When we were more confident at working out algorithms, we began to explore the Blue-Bot controls. First we followed, created and tested sequences of instructions to solve problems with the Blue-Bot. Then we predicted what the Blue-Bot would do when given different sequences of instructions.

Finally we learned to correct mistakes in Blue-Bot programs. This is called debugging.