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> However I don't see this game to be very successful in making someone curious about programming. I kind of agree with you... but on the other hand, I distinc
by seertaak 9y ago
> However I don't see this game to be very successful in making someone curious about programming.
I kind of agree with you... but on the other hand, I distinctly remember asking as a child: "But why?" in an almost endless chain. Apply that question to most ideas about programming, and you'll eventually end up at ideas that are reified by this board.
So what I'm saying is that -- assuming my son or daughter take up programming as an interest -- this will be one of the legs of tuition. You're right that the initial excitement will probably come from doing some cool graphics or audio stuff, but this will make all the "magic" vanish. In that sense, as a dad, this is definitely interesting!
- xg15 9y agoI agree. My concern is that the order of things might be problematic - i.e., at the time they're playing with the mechanism, it might not be clear why the fact that the mechanism can arrange marbles in particular orders is so important. i could imagine, if one started (somehow) with some actual application (maybe a grid that could arrange the marbles as "pixels" of an image) and from there worked back to the core, it might be easier.