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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Makes Game For Third Annual Hour of Code (gamasutra.com)
Eloking writes: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Twitter account lit up today with a message all too familiar to many indie devs: Mr. Trudeau has made a video game, and he'd like everyone to play it. It was a cute bit of promotion for Hour of Code, the computer science education event masterminded every year by the Code.org nonprofit. While the Hour of Code websites hosts one-hour tutorials (in 45 languages) for coding all sorts of simple applications, game developers may appreciate that the lion's share appears to be game projects, like the one Trudeau modified into a sort of hockey-themed Breakout variant.
https://studio.code.org/c/298948598
holy crap. Within 1 min my computer is lagging to shit.
Worst game ever...I love it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU9jn7pU8mg
And with no pressing issues in Canada, all is safe. With energy costs(from gasoline, electricity to natural gas) that are going through the roof in nearly every province. Never mind that Canada is teetering either on a deflationary spiral or hyperinflation spiral(depending on which way the housing market goes). A housing market so hot that it makes the late 1980's housing market seem like a balmy day, and CHMC(think freddie-fanie) mortgages arrears and foreclosures are increasing. Serious regional unemployment numbers, but believes importing *more* people is a great plan--especially TFW's who could be hired at any job(unlike H1B's which are limited to one area) with wanting to have a population in Canada of 100m in 50 years. His pay-for-play access scandal. A carbon tax that's going to jack the prices of everything up by around 20%, a declining service and manufacturing industry. Rampant debt and overzealous expenditure projects that in the previous government would have every left-wing media publication screaming from the rooftop about how we can't afford it.
And has decided that he wants to spy on every single Canadian, and pass a bill just like the snoopers charter in the UK. With mandatory decryption, backdoors, subscriber info and retention logging But he's got time to make a video game....so we're all safe.
Om, nomnomnom...
You're vastly overestimating what Trudeau actually did here.
The wheels and hubs were already fully attached.
What he did was choose the color for the wheels and hubs.
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Its funny how two countries next door to each other could elect such different leaders, a young inspitrational quality human for Canada, and a corrupt to the hilt bankrupt both morally and finacially, demented old man with a bad hairdo for the US.
Come to think of it, thats basically the difference between the two.
Now, lets watch the Trumplthinskin trolls come out and blame Hillary.
What is with all the ignorant hate comments against Trudeau?
Like it or not the man is trying to help push coding to the public. Is it marketing? Yes An agenda? Sure But it is also someone of importance trying to show that anyone can do basic coding and that is good for our kids and education in general. As hardware continues to be less important, software will continue to be where the jobs are. I can't tell you how many times I wish kids today would learn some basic logic because their parents are not. As a father of five kids, I use logic to teach my kids basic troubleshooting of everyday issues when they run into a problem. My wife who is a brilliant teacher wants all kids to learn basic coding as a way of teaching logic and maybe a little commonsense as well.
Basic coding means learning some basic logic skills and that is good for everyone.
For all you hating on the example being set by Trudeau, turn in your geek card. You should realize the benefits of people learning basic coding and logic.
-GeekPoet
This just proves anyone can code. How does $8.50 an hour sound?
I think that what's the most important here is not how simple or complex coding actually is; but rather getting people to know what it is, and not to fear it.
.ini files for some game configurations. Then I changed the .bat launchers a bit (in order to load different config files, for example). And increasingly complex, to the Linux kernel and beyond. And in my experience, the same is true for pretty much any field I am interested in (as well as the others).
I often meet people (students, most of the time), that are frightened by the idea of creating a project bigger than a couple of C files. The trick in this case is to progressively increase the size or the complexity of the projects they are working on, developing their abstraction, design, and overview skills (as well as testing, documentation, etc.). But, of course, you have to start somewhere. And those projects are a perfect opportunity to do so.
I believe that I more or less started coding the day I started changing
To reuse your example, say, Lego cars, can probably (indirectly, as a starter) bring someone into mechanical engineering.
Lego cars, can probably (indirectly, as a starter) bring someone into mechanical engineering.
Indi-fucking-rectly?
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He could have written online voting system to elect MPs using Rock Paper Scissors.
Does it apologize for winning?
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
We're supposed to judge people by their ability to grab some pussy?
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Why no IRC?
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She's first lady.
You are welcome on my lawn.
We're supposed to judge people by their ability to grab some pussy?
What's wrong with grabbing pussy?
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
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by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Why all the hate comments? Try the serious mother-fucking hypocrisy. Ran on a campaign that included as a key element that we needed to get rid of the first-past-the-post election system before the next federal election, and has since done everything possible to make sure that won't happen, going so far as to claim that Canadians don't want it changed.
He might have valid reasons for other policy decisions, but there is no way this one passes the smell test.
The big difference between Pierre and Justin Trudeau is that Pierre didn't try to please everyone or suck at the teat of political correctness during the FLQ bombings, kidnappings, and murder. (@5:44)
Trudeau: "There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is 'Go on and bleed' It's more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who don't like the looks of ..."
Reporter (uinterrupting) "At any cost? How far would you go with that?"
Trudeau: "Well, just watch me."
And then he suspended civil liberties under the War Measures Act (@9:16).
The separatists hated him for it, but hey, if you don't like it, just leave - but you don't get to take anything more than you brought into the country when you joined (Quebec was a lot smaller when it became, with Ontario and parts of the maritimes, Canada). And if Canada is divisible, so is Quebec, so parts that don't want to separate will remain part of Canada. That would have left a few small "independent duchies" of separatists completely cut off from each other, and from the majority of Quebec and Canada (and the US as well). And no access to the St Lawrence, since the federal government has sovereignty over all land within 200' of any body of water.
In short, a big "fuck you" to the FLQ and separatists, based on law and logic.
Huge difference between father and son. You might like Justin, but like him or hate him, you had to respect Pierre.
Now back on topic - the "Hour of Code" is bullshit. Why not have an "Hour of Electricity" to help people learn that you can't plug both the kettle and the toaster into the same electrical circuit? Or the "Hour of Plumbing" to to learn how to replace the washer in a leaky tap? The "Hour of Cooking" so that the "microwave pizza pocket generation" can lean how to make a grilled cheese sandwich without f*cking it up or causing a fire? And how about the "Hour of RTFM" to teach people the importance of reading instructions BEFORE they break something? To save the health care system money, why not the "Hour of Evolution" so that people understand why giving antibiotics for every runny nose will lead to superbugs?
All of these are more important than any "Oh look I sort of - kind of - well not really but don't burst my bubble - coded a game."
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Technically nothing, but bragging about it is nothing less than highly juvenile, and while Trump has since apologized for those particular statements, his general behavior and attitude today does not convince me that he has since acquired any great amount of maturity since the time that he made the remark. So as far as I can tell, the USA has basically elected someone with the maturity of a 14 year old as their president, and the next 4 years could be... uhmm... very interesting.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Considering how low the bar was set with Harper, that does not say much.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Um, yeah... "coding is easy" if your idea of coding is moving a few speech bubbles around to reskin some incredibly lame Pong/Arkanoid clone.
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I see him as a Henry V type character. We'll see whether or not he conquers France.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
People actually still use IRC.
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It would be more impressive if his game also did email. Every program should grow until it can do email. Until then, it's incomplete :-)
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
That's my point. Or was your point that people don't use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text? Because I do use ICQ, Jabber (both gatewayed to IRC, but still) and Mobile Text.
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??? What game?
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Yep. Pretty much everyone is. It's like the Cons haven't figured out that their chicken-little politics isn't working anymore. Keep it cooky cons, and get comfy in opposition. :)
Well, this is how elections work: Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal voted him into the office, how everybody pays for it.
Now if only he'd done a curling game, we'd be on fire!
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Well, precious snowflakes need their nappy time after they've had their nappy changed. :-)
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
No, instead it gets vindictive and spawn two pucks. There's some kind of weird delay from the "throw ball" code blob to when the puck actually appears. So basically if you miss, you immediately get thrown another puck. Then about a second or two later a second puck spawns. Eventually you're overrun by pucks!
I'm guessing there are two "throw ball" elements in a row because that makes the first puck spawn without the delay. Just... that little exponential consequence of spawning two pucks per one that goes off the bottom of the screen...!
I really don't like Trudeau, but I also can't really fault him for this. It's encouraging education, especially self-driven education, which is actually pretty cool.
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In which case, we've won. Most chess AIs can beat most of us
Depends what you define as "coding".
I'd say generally speaking coding is easy, it's understanding the problem and designing a solution that is hard. I'd say other than in rather rare instances is really "inspired" code required. So if you count requirements comprehension and solution design as part of "coding" then ya, not always so easy.
Then there are getting those requirements from clients that don't always know what they want and having to tease out of them what is actually required can also be hard to do, but is that part of coding?
Lastly I'd say another thing that seems to be hard to do is doing all the above, whilst not breaking some totally unrelated part of the system no one will bother to test so it will pass UAT flawlessly, but bombs in production.
I say all that from sitting at multiple sides of the software table.
That said it was just the other day I was evaluating a project and came across a part where I couldn't help thinking the line "Clever Girl..." (from Jurassic Park Aussie accent and all) about the developer and particular tricky requirement. However wasn't (as said rarely) the code that particularly clever but the design, which usually results from coming at the problem from a totally different angle.