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A New-Fashioned Programming Throwdown(blog.codecombat.com)
7 points by nwinter 12y ago|0 comments
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by nwinter 12y ago
You probably wouldn't want to even click the TMZ link in the first place when you knew you were making the video, since the post-production is so onerous. It's like a precommitment that you're not going to get distracted. In
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by nwinter 12y ago
We have experimental Python support now! blog.codecombat.com/new-experimental-languages-python-lua-clojure-and-io
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by nwinter 12y ago
Thank you! I'm tracking the bug over here and will fix soon: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/issues/1153
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by nwinter 12y ago
We do have a lot of students and teachers using it, but we haven't built a long-enough beginner campaign to provide much of a curriculum yet. That's something we'll be focusing on starting in early fall as US schools start sw
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by nwinter 12y ago
Can you email nick@codecombat.com to help us reproduce this? It sounds like a form is getting submitted somehow, which shouldn't happen. I haven't been able to reproduce in Firefox, Chrome, or Safari yet. Sorry about this–we take
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by nwinter 12y ago
Hehe, from our point of view, the intro/tutorial needs a lot of work–if you watch the playtesters, anyway. We will continue to work on it. Most of our libraries and engines and such are listed here: https://github.com/
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by nwinter 12y ago
I think you probably played the beginner levels? The tournament level in question was http://codecombat.com/play/ladder/greed
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by nwinter 12y ago
You can still play this one, there's just no tournament cutoff date or prizes any more. There are three other ongoing arenas here: http://codecombat.com/play/ladder We're working on the next tournament level,
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by nwinter 12y ago
Which levels didn't load for you? I'll check it out. Sorry about that! The campaign is certainly short a few thousand levels. It will take time for us to get there, since making good programming levels is a challenge even when you
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by nwinter 12y ago
Oh, which player is your student? Our ten-year-old is American, actually.
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by nwinter 12y ago
We'll keep working on the RAM needs, but yeah, that is just about the lower limit that I would expect to be able to play the game at all currently. We have a lot of work to do, but don't worry, we'll get it running on older a
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by nwinter 13y ago
Unique contributors since open source launch is strange?
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by nwinter 13y ago
I love this. If you want any art to start off with, CodeCombat has a bunch of vector stuff that's open source and are always adding more: http://codecombat.com/editor/thang We also have a few music tracks we'
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by nwinter 13y ago
Set up some experiments using http://www.quantified-mind.com/ to see whether there's any difference in your cognitive performance when you've been sleeping for 6 hours vs. for 8. Practice the tests a few times, th
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by nwinter 13y ago
Yeah, it's going to be awesome when we can do this: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/wiki/Summer-Project... It'll be hard, but not as hard as what we've already done with sandboxing and
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CodeCombat introduces competitive multiplayer programming(codecombat.com)
1 points by nwinter 13y ago|0 comments
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by nwinter 13y ago
I've had to do a lot of this recently for CodeCombat's transpiler, Aether: https://github.com/codecombat/aether – it uses Esprima, Acorn, JSHint, and a bunch of other JS tools. There's a ton of great stu
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by nwinter 13y ago
We aren't experts, so perhaps we'll eventually run into similar problems, but it seems like supporting a contributor to do something major might just be a case where it doesn't always make ROI on the first feature, but the po
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by nwinter 13y ago
No one will see the value in doing what you're doing and want to clone you until then. Even if someone saw the genius in your approach early on and decided to clone you and start competing with you, you have to be confident that your v
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by nwinter 13y ago
We find jobs for our more experienced players and collect placement fees from the employers.
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by nwinter 13y ago
Mostly Firepad, which is an adapter for CodeMirror that uses Firebase to add real-time collaborative text editing to it: http://www.firepad.io/ We are using ACE, not CodeMirror, so I added another adapter to hook Firepad up
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Having Your Algorithm's Ass Kicked by the Internet(blog.codecombat.com)
5 points by nwinter 13y ago|0 comments
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by nwinter 13y ago
We'll definitely be up front on how necessary an H1B turns out to be once we have that info from our employers. Preliminary results suggest that around 2/3 of companies are fine with sponsoring H1B transfers, but we don't hav
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by nwinter 13y ago
You're almost certainly right that I'm underestimating the detriment of US-centrism, since I don't quite understand what you're suggesting–maybe you can explain some more? Seems the only three things we can do with skill
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by nwinter 13y ago
Sure, that's what CC-BY is all about. Will be happy to see the art used in more places. (We don't actually draw the stuff ourselves; we're hiring an excellent game art studio to draw it for us, RetroStyle Games.) Right, this
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by nwinter 13y ago
I just put some exported .png copies of some of them in the Dropbox folder you shared with me, but I'm realizing that without the associated metadata it's not going to be very useful (I can perhaps find where that was put later bu
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by nwinter 13y ago
We are so new to this that I'm not sure how big a deal it is going to be. We'll definitely find out soon, as a lot of great candidates are not US citizens.
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by nwinter 13y ago
Sure! This is what we are trying first: http://blog.codecombat.com/beat-this-level-get-a-programming... Now we know we can definitely have enough skilled candidates, and though it's only been a week, it is looking real
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by nwinter 13y ago
Brunch is amazing. I was using Grunt in another project, but Brunch is so, so much faster to recompile changes, since it's very clever about caching. Oh yeah, those sprites were in the repo as raster files, but we managed to move them

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