What's New

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Fixed level progression in the procedures level set: troublesome level 5 has now been replaced with a simpler level.

As always, thank you for supporting Lightbot!

App Description

Get kids hooked on coding within minutes!

Lightbot : Code Hour is a programming puzzle game- a game whose game mechanics require using programming logic to solve levels. This short teaser is meant to introduce players to programming who may have little to no experience. Anyone, anywhere, from grades K-12 can play, have fun and learn real programming logic!

Simply guiding a robot to light up tiles and solve levels using commands, Lightbot cultivates a real understanding of procedures, loops, and conditionals.

Educators around the world are choosing to use Lightbot first when introducing their students to programming, coding and Computer Science.

Lightbot : Code Hour features 20 levels. The follow-on Lightbot : Programming Puzzles features 50 levels and 20 challenge stars to collect for when you want more of a challenge!

This version of Lightbot can be played in English, French, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Norwegian, Slovenian, Romanian, Indonesian, German, Polish, Danish, Croatian, Dutch, Slovak, Czech, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Thai, Hindi, Swedish, Finnish and Hungarian! Just hit the associated flag icon on the main screen to select a language.

Lightbot features multiple save slots and separate progress tracking for multiple players. Multiple players can advance at their own pace in their own save slot, and also compete on number of levels finished, number of stars collected and number of overall commands used to complete the game.

There are NO in-app purchases in Lightbot.

iPhone Screenshots

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Lightbot : Code Hour screenshot 1

iPad Screenshots

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Lightbot : Code Hour screenshot 2

App Changes

  • June 11, 2014 Initial release
  • November 24, 2015 New version 1.6.3
  • December 07, 2015 New version 1.6.6
  • January 24, 2016 New version 1.6.7
  • December 06, 2016 New version 1.6.8

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