So apparently this is how you get kids to learn coding.

Graphics after pretty nice but coding by dragging commands takes too long...

There are many games like this even with "real coding" :)

Well you're not the target audience either.

For kids, it has to be colorful and fun or they'll drop it. You cant throw Fortran at a 7 year old.

Other programming games

TIS-100
SpaceChem
Pretty much anything by Zachtronics
...

I actually struggled on some of this, but then again my maths is terrible, and most programming games seem to *really* focus on math as the medium rather than more tangible examples of the abstractions.

It’s a solid game though, and I reckon with a bit more polish it could be great.

I like this kind of games. Especially because it can get kids into programming much better than any random tutorial.
And I agree on the zachtronics comment 😎

@arcadesdude spacehem gets hard fast. Opus Magnum has a slightly gentler learning curve, but the timing system is a real pain to wrap your head around.

Well there was people here not able to finish the google coding game...

mannnn! i used to love this game till Shenzen IO came out

HOLD ON WAIT A FUCKING SECOND. A student at my university made this??😮

@daintycode how would you know? I didnt actually give a name?

@billgates he presented it in one of our classes.

@billgates the question is how this even came to you?

Ok this is getting dumb now I think...

You want me to copy-paste add 40 times?

I guess time to go back to HackerRank...

@daintycode oh wow... it was in one of the game lists in Play... I was bored so just browsing games and this was one of them...

@billgates the whole point of this level is to show that there are better approaches than to use add 40 times. If I remember correctly, about 6 to 8 adds should be sufficient.

@Froot yes, but think of how awesome a coder could be if they started Fortran at 7?! By 25 they could be a code deity!