[3] A Windows version is available to the general public for download from Microsoft's FUSE web portal.
[4] Kodu is a visual programming tool which is used to teach basic coding with the use of blocks and pictures.
It dispenses with most "serious" programming conventions, including symbolic variables, branching, loops, number and string manipulation, subroutines, polymorphism, and so on.
This simplicity is achieved by situating the programming task in a largely complete simulation environment.
The typical "hello world" of Kodu is: see - fruit - move - towardsThe grammar, as it were, of this expression is: