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Froot75567yWell 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
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Brolls31557yI 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. -
rohbaert307yI 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 😎 -
Brolls31557y@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.
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donuts238507yOk this is getting dumb now I think...
You want me to copy-paste add 40 times?
I guess time to go back to HackerRank... -
donuts238507y@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...
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Krichel237y@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.
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owithg21717y@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!
So apparently this is how you get kids to learn coding.
Graphics after pretty nice but coding by dragging commands takes too long...
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