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I never got what's the difference between this game and (free, in-browser) NAND-to-Tetris

by NooneAtAll3 3y ago

cybrox 3y ago
This makes it sound like this is a mystery that has eluded humankind for years. :D Personally, I would say NAND-to-Tetris is a (great) freely available learning resource for people looking to actively learn more about computers and digital logic from the ground up. It is mostly structured like a course you would take and the game it leads up to is a means to an end. Turing complete on the other hand is a more playful approach that guides you through the individual steps (though it still requires you to look up quite a lot of things on your own) with a little story and provides more smaller challenges instead of just one big end goal. In addition to that, it features a relatively powerful sandbox that allows you to interact with things and there's a scoring system for complexity and runtime for all your little solutions that gives it a small competitive side. I wouldn't say one is better than the other. NAND-to-Tetris is a learning resource with a game in it and Turing Complete is a game with learning resources and a sandbox in it.
- ykonstant 3y ago
  I am a little confused; is NAND-to-tetris free? I thought you had to buy the course, or something like that.
  - jerry_tk 3y ago
    nand2tetris is free on https://www.nand2tetris.org/course https://www.nand2tetris.org/course The course is also available on Coursera where it also offers free option if you do evaluation yourself ("auditor" mode).
SilasX 3y ago
I highlighted a few differences recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38740170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38740170 To which I would add, TC is more newbie friendly, what with the cartoonish GUI, while Nand2tetris expects that you're already more technically adept and capable of working at the level of command-line.

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I never got what's the difference between this game and (free, in-browser) NAND-to-Tetris

by NooneAtAll3 3y ago

I never got what's the difference between this game and (free, in-browser) NAND-to-Tetris

cybrox 3y ago
This makes it sound like this is a mystery that has eluded humankind for years. :D Personally, I would say NAND-to-Tetris is a (great) freely available learning resource for people looking to actively learn more about computers and digital logic from the ground up. It is mostly structured like a course you would take and the game it leads up to is a means to an end. Turing complete on the other hand is a more playful approach that guides you through the individual steps (though it still requires you to look up quite a lot of things on your own) with a little story and provides more smaller challenges instead of just one big end goal. In addition to that, it features a relatively powerful sandbox that allows you to interact with things and there's a scoring system for complexity and runtime for all your little solutions that gives it a small competitive side. I wouldn't say one is better than the other. NAND-to-Tetris is a learning resource with a game in it and Turing Complete is a game with learning resources and a sandbox in it.
- ykonstant 3y ago
  I am a little confused; is NAND-to-tetris free? I thought you had to buy the course, or something like that.
  - jerry_tk 3y ago
    nand2tetris is free on https://www.nand2tetris.org/course https://www.nand2tetris.org/course The course is also available on Coursera where it also offers free option if you do evaluation yourself ("auditor" mode).
SilasX 3y ago
I highlighted a few differences recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38740170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38740170 To which I would add, TC is more newbie friendly, what with the cartoonish GUI, while Nand2tetris expects that you're already more technically adept and capable of working at the level of command-line.