When HN users recommended it
1 HN user recommended this in 2018, in one comment.
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Peradix Marble Run Coaster Set
Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.
I think the toy that first primed me for programming was a marble run construction kit. The feeling of working out where the marbles will go is very much like the one of following code through in your head.
Of course, rather than teaching me anything, it may have simply appealed to me because of a motive that was already there.
This kind of thing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peradix-Marble-Run-Coaster-Set/dp/B...