Sunday, April 17, 2016

Coding Games - note to try

Coding games have always intrigued me. Seems like it would be educational to play with my kids. Here noting a link to a list of games and some initial investigation.

There are two types of coding games:

  1. Sense of coding
    1. Get the feeling or spirit of coding that may not use language features rather custom abstracted methods.
  2. Actual language constructs.
    1. Work with actual language features.


As these sites are investigated it will be determined in which of the two types.

This article suggests a number of sites which was a great seed for this investigation.
http://www.thesoftwareguild.com/blog/coding-games-for-programmers/

https://www.codingame.com/start
Wow, so very sophisticated, so much going i'm hardly sure where to start.
This could be a great way to learn gaming development.
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/robocode/
Although this is for .net and java the setup is in java, so skipping for now.

http://codecombat.com/
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So very well done in the modern style that reminds me of what my grade school kids are working with. I like this because it gently teaches you how to move forward.

http://ceebot.com/ceebot/index-e.php
http://www.ceebot.org/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=53&func=fileinfo&id=3&lang=en
Download demo version available.
You install a download manager and then start the game.
The graphics are a bit old school although quite advanced.
This seems to be more about the cadence or the feeling about programming more than actual knowledge. Seems excellent for educational institutions for beginning young programmers.

http://www.codewars.com/
This has a github authentication feature however I was unable to get any kind of signup to work on IE or Chrome.









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