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This is awesome, I'm closing it now though as well. This is how teaching should be...this exercise isn't at all about programming and more about how to think.
by Cshelton 11y ago
This is awesome, I'm closing it now though as well.
This is how teaching should be...this exercise isn't at all about programming and more about how to think. This can be simplified into a drag and drop block language and given to grade school kids as a really good exercise.
Many programmers in the professional world today would really struggle with this because they never learned to actually think, they just "program" (copy paste, edit work already done by others). They don't actually create new things or find solutions themselves.
- tsunamifury 11y agoPlenty of programmers think, they just don't consider the use case and the user.
- lfowles 11y agoThis would be a great Blockly[0] demo [0]: https://developers.google.com/blockly/?hl=en https://developers.google.com/blockly/?hl=en
- MzHN 11y agoIndeed. Example of a similar game using Blockly, with the option to switch to JavaScript: http://slushsmackdown.com http://slushsmackdown.com
- dwd 11y agoMy kids played this first time around, they would have been grade 5 or 6 at the time and got through to level 7 before hacking the level selection and trying random levels to see which ones their approach worked with.