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CodinGame – Games for Programmers

22 points by snake117 11y ago

pavornyoh 11y ago
I signed up for this a while back and sent a message to their support. It took 5 days for them to get back to me. So I hope now they have raised money, they can get someone to respond quicker if they want to compete as they are in France and not San Francisco as it states on the website.
davidklemke 11y ago
Went through a few of the puzzles on Friday last week, it's pretty great for shaking out the cobwebs in languages you haven't used in a while. I did have some issues with their IDE in the latest Chrome build when I first started it though. Not sure if that was because I was using it as a guest but, strangely enough, everything worked perfectly in Edge.
vvanders 11y ago
Anyone else seeing a bunch of artwork that they might not have the rights too(I'm pretty sure I saw Bastion on the homepage at one part)?
salex89 11y ago
I'm playing the puzzles for some time now (when I can afford the time), and I consider myself a relatively experienced dev (college + two years in the industry) and learning a new language (Scala) and just using plain Java. It's magnificent how I tend to overcomplicate everything with using lambdas, pattern matching, options, stream operations on collections now, banging my head on one liners, while some younger me would just make a couple of ugly loops (maybe even more efficient than the elegant solution) and just continue on. Not sure have I evolved or devolved.
daemin 11y ago
So I've seen an increase in programming puzzle games released lately (but that may be just due to more indie games coming out in total). They are entertaining but the latter levels tend to suck up so much time to complete, and optimise! Just to name a few: SpaceChem InfiniFactory Human Resource Machine TIS-100 Now I have to wonder how much time that could be devoted to actual programming - building and solving real world problems - this is soaking up? How much of it is useful training of logic and puzzle solving?

22 points by snake117 11y ago

I signed up for this a while back and sent a message to their support. It took 5 days for them to get back to me. So I hope now they have raised money, they can get someone to respond quicker if they want to compete as they are in France and not San Francisco as it states on the website.

davidklemke 11y ago

Went through a few of the puzzles on Friday last week, it's pretty great for shaking out the cobwebs in languages you haven't used in a while. I did have some issues with their IDE in the latest Chrome build when I first started it though. Not sure if that was because I was using it as a guest but, strangely enough, everything worked perfectly in Edge.

vvanders 11y ago

Anyone else seeing a bunch of artwork that they might not have the rights too(I'm pretty sure I saw Bastion on the homepage at one part)?

salex89 11y ago

I'm playing the puzzles for some time now (when I can afford the time), and I consider myself a relatively experienced dev (college + two years in the industry) and learning a new language (Scala) and just using plain Java. It's magnificent how I tend to overcomplicate everything with using lambdas, pattern matching, options, stream operations on collections now, banging my head on one liners, while some younger me would just make a couple of ugly loops (maybe even more efficient than the elegant solution) and just continue on. Not sure have I evolved or devolved.

daemin 11y ago

So I've seen an increase in programming puzzle games released lately (but that may be just due to more indie games coming out in total). They are entertaining but the latter levels tend to suck up so much time to complete, and optimise! Just to name a few: SpaceChem InfiniFactory Human Resource Machine TIS-100 Now I have to wonder how much time that could be devoted to actual programming - building and solving real world problems - this is soaking up? How much of it is useful training of logic and puzzle solving?