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Games Teaching the Basics of Programming
RandomPrecision writes to tell us Wired is reporting that computer programmer Igor Kholodov has created a game designed to make learning the basics of programming fun. From the article 'The board game turns players into skiers who must race down a mountain in the quickest way possible. With each roll of the die, players must follow instructions that are similar to computer program codes. Using basic math, players have to figure out which paths are open to them and then decide the fastest way to the finish line.'"
As my form 2 teacher, Mrs Federline, always told me, if you don't understand something, just do it againjust done it yesterday.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
On the Developers Page, this story and its twin from yesterday are only separated by one interloper.
There's some serious glitching in the Matrix on slashdot these days.
Yesterdays story on this exact same subject.
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Mommy...make the bad dupes stop....*sobbing in corner*
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
You have to play this thing in meatspace! And who decided to make friends a system requirement?
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power. -- Mussolini
This one is called "Is It A Dupe Or Not?"
Take a normal pack of playing cards (remove Jokers), and start dealing out cards. Now, look at the face of the card (ie, Ace, 4, 5, King, etc.). If you've already dealt out a card with the same face value, place the card in the "dupe" pile. If you haven't, you can place it in the "post" pile.
At the end of the game, count your post pile. If you do not have 13 cards in your "post" pile, you lose.
This game is designed to teach you if you've already seen something and therefore don't need to post it again.
Yes it is indeed a dupe. So is your post, however.
You've managed to build up a huge userbase*, develop a fairly sophisticated posting/moderation system - and then waste the whole fucking lot with retard editors who don't edit, quite plainly don't even read their own site, with less-than-24hrs-apart dupes on a weekly basis, broken links, things that snopes has debunked long ago, etc, etc.
And that's just the "obviously bad" editorial fuckups. Don't even get me started on how the 'quirky science' and 'cool tech' articles have been drowned in a sea of predictable, "didn't we already discuss this to death last week, and the week before that, and the week before that, for the last year or so" stories which are basically nothing more than trolls for page views (ie: ad impressions). You know the sort: linux gets virus, Microsoft sue somebody, RIAA sue everybody, Apple/Google scratch their arse.... SAME OLD SHIT!
FIRE THESE FUCKING INCOMPETENT EDITORS LIKE ZONK AND SCUTTLEBUTT AND HIRE SOME WHO ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THIS SITE IN THE SLIGHTEST.
Jesus wept.
* so far all the "shut up and go elsewhere" comments, that's not really possible: other sites like technocrat.net have better stories, but approx 2 comments per story, and I started coming here (and continued coming here, for 5-6 years now) to read the comments.
they wuld post a story about some way to teach the basics of programming...perhaps a board game?
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Ok, here's an idea. Bare with me on this one...
We all (well, mostly all) know Cmdr. Wil Riker was duplicated by a freak, one-chance-in-a-billion transporter accident that spawned Thomas Riker, but geez this shit's getting outa hand. Now, if the OLD Enterprise crew could merge the Good Jim Kirk back with the Evil Jim Kirk through the transporter, then maybe -- just maybe -- Cmdr. Taco could fiddle with the packet-transporters to merge ScuttleMonkey and Zonk back into a cohesive whole?
More to the point, when (ok, if) this does happen, hopefully their good/evil duplicate articles will merge back into single entities as well.
Of course, this would mean all the posts between the respective dupes would slam together into a single entity of posts, creating a massive disturbance between their respective mirror universes and...
Aw fuck, what was I sayin'...?
I'm sorry, could you repeat that?
Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
...how to edit a website?
Best Buy can have you arrested
I find your comment offensive. Although certainly, to be a good, professional programmer, you need lots of schooling and a great deal of skill, there can be amateur programmers. I program just for fun, to see what I can do. Am I a good programmer? No. Will I ever be? No. Does that mean I can't be called a programmer? Once again, no. What you are suggesting would be akin to only allowing NHL stars to be called hockey players, or something equally absurd. I'm guessing that you, this great paragon of programming skill, at some point knew nothing about programming, and had to learn "the basics" as well. I don't even want to think of the code you write if your logic has lead you to the conclusion it has.
He was also said that teaching Cobol should be a criminal offense.
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