Self-moving educational toy

An educational toy for teaching basic concepts of computer programming to children, comprising:

• at least a first self-moving vehicle adapted to move and steer freely on a two-dimensional surface;
• and
• at least one tangible, three-dimensional marker comprising at least one machine-readable information item, wherein the marker is adapted to be placeable freely on the surface and wherein the marker has a height (h) above the surface when placed on the surface,
• wherein a ground clearance (g) of the self-moving vehicle is smaller than the height (h) of the marker above the surface, and
• wherein the self-moving vehicle comprises at least one sensor adapted for a wireless readout of the machine-readable information item of the marker and a control unit adapted for controlling the self-moving vehicle depending on the machine-readable information item as read out by the sensor, wherein the toy is adapted to trigger at least one action of the self-moving vehicle in response to the machine-readable information item being read out by the sensor and wherein
• the triggered action comprises at least one of:
• a starting of a movement of the self-moving vehicle and/or
• a stopping of a movement of the self-moving vehicle;
• wherein information about a previous playrun of the self-moving vehicle and information about the marker is stored in a memory of the self-moving vehicle and wherein the self-moving vehicle is configured to replay the previous playrun in an absence of the marker.