Cargo-Bot is a free iApp that I can’t decide if I love or hate. Currently, I am stuck on one of the levels – and it’s in the Easy Category. But, I can’t stop! I will keep working on it until I figure it out. This is why it would probably be a good app for gifted students. They need challenges that they cannot immediately solve, but that they really want to unravel.
While navigating Cargo-Bot, users are learning the basics of computer programming. This may not sound like fun, but this app is strangely alluring with its simplicity. The user is asked to direct the program to move colored crates into certain configurations. It gives tutorials, and then progresses to the challenges, which begin at Easy. After Medium and Hard are the Crazy and Impossible levels. I am halfway through Easy. I think this says more about my ability to do logic than it does about the difficulty of the app…
