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Have been playing with this for a few minutes. It's been pretty enjoyable, I especially like the animated graphics. With things like this I always wonder what t
by jaredandrews 13y ago
Have been playing with this for a few minutes. It's been pretty enjoyable, I especially like the animated graphics. With things like this I always wonder what the experience is like for people who have never programmed. Do you have any idea? I am going to share with some of my non-technical friends but it's possible they won't ever get around to playing it.
- britta 13y agoI have almost no programming experience, and this game expects you to know quite a bit about programming conventions. My experience so far includes: * "I don't really know what call means in this context, but based on previous knowledge, I'm guessing I should replace the example words with that." * "Oh, right, I remember based on previous knowledge that "#" means comment, so I should remove that part too." * "Oh, maybe I need the exclamation point that previously looked to me just like punctuation, because I know that code is precise about punctuation like that." * "I don't know how to use if/else in Ruby, but I can guess that I just type 'if' and 'else', because Ruby has a reputation for simplicity." * "I can also guess based on previous knowledge that indentation probably means something in Ruby, so I'll try indenting things." And that's about as much guessing as I feel like doing for a game, and I'm still on level two. (I know I could easily learn how to play the game by looking at any basic guide to Ruby; I'm just demonstrating how it feels for a person without any experience.)