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Show HN: A game that teaches Git
- parinzee 4y agoGreat game!
- bradwoodsio 4y agoThanks!
- philonoist 4y agoHN always said that Git and its naming is so complex that from startups to matured faang daddies, nobody invests a workshop or two per week in it. I am at loss of words to see that companies rather find young talent use emacs/vim which are an old hag of a complex editors. Thank you for making this. I hope you find a good chunk of enthusiastic bigshots contributing this.
- bradwoodsio 4y agoThanks mate. I've heard a couple of times from people learning to code - "JavaScript is fine, it's everything else that makes the process overwhelming". 'Everything else' referring to Git, webpack, etc... My goal is to get people comfortable with Git in an isolated environment, away from coding. Leverage knowledge they already have (a timeline / history of the world) to help understanding. I think if you try to learn Git + programming language + webpack + ... all at once, your trying to go from crawling to sprinting. Better to learn each of these in isolation so you go from crawling, to walking, to jogging, to sprinting.
- marapuru 4y agoWhat a great setup. I really love the premise, but I feel that it needs slightly more instructions. As I'm struggling in finding out what exactly to do. For example: - It was a not so obvious to find out I had to click on the green flashing text. - "Find the git pull command", I keep typing "git pull" but there is no help whatsoever (apart from the beep). Does "Find" mean that I need to find it in the documentation? Do I need to type it? Nothing is added to the commands list on the bottom left.
- bradwoodsio 4y agoSorry about that. I'll change the copy to make it clearer. The pull command will be in 1 of the newspaper's science & technology column. It will have the green flashing background behind it.
- marapuru 4y agoThere is not flashing background in the S&T column. Also when I inspect the HTML, there is not text or anything apart from some gibberish :-) (refreshed, cleared cookies, using FF and Chrome on Mac) Also, thanks for the reply. Appreciated :-)
- bradwoodsio 4y agoAre you looking at the 'fall of the soviet union' newspaper?
- marapuru 4y agoAaaah, the newspapers that were newer as the moonlanding one didn't appear on my screen. As I resized a few times. Found it now :)
- bradwoodsio 4y agono worries. I appreciate the feedback.
- marapuru 4y agoI finished the game. Great work! Also love your Digital Garden.
- bradwoodsio 4y agoThanks, glad you got to the end.
- goalexboxer 4y agoabsolutely brilliant idea! Also love the implementation. As far as it concerns me, as a TA in a CS university, this is truly an inspiration to make technical matters way more fun and appealing. Please continue to work on such matters!
- bradwoodsio 4y agoThanks mate. Appreciate it.
- incel 4y ago