Stone Bucket app for iPhone and iPad

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Games Education Educational Simulation
Developer: Sebastien Siva

Free

Current version: 1.0, last update: 8 years ago
First release : 27 Mar 2014
App size: 41.62 Mb

Stone Bucket simulates a physical computer that uses stones and buckets for memory, and a crane for processing. Technically, it is a very simple Register Machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_machine) similar to a Turing machine. This educational tool teaches basic programming principles and algorithmic thinking. It also helps convey the idea that a computer is a physical machine.