Leadership and decision-making through Banner Saga.
How to be social through New York Nights and Miami Nights (mobile games).
Anthropology/History through Civ... Obviously :)
Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
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Re: Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
#42http://www.flexboxdefense.com/
Really appreciated this back when I was first introduced to CSS Flexbox.
Re: Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
#43In terms of learning hacking, there are CTF/wargames that teach through puzzles.
Gracker: https://www.smrrd.de/creating-a-hacking-game-part-1-introduc...
Overthewire: http://overthewire.org/wargames/
Exploit Exercises: https://exploit-exercises.com/
PicoCTF: https://picoctf.com/
P.S. I would love to work on making educational puzzles. If anyone is similarly passionate about it, please message me.
Re: Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
#44I liked Human Resource Machine for brushing up on Assembly language concepts
Microcorruption is a fun resource for learning about reverse engineering, assembly language, and cybersecurity (the concept is that you're going through the assembly code of dev kits of different versions of software-controlled locks to find vulnerabilities that can then be exploited to get into warehouses full of MacGuffins). I've gotten through about half of the stages so far--they get really tough, but it is extremely satisfying to successfully complete one!
I also really enjoyed the couple of Zachtronics games I've played (I've done the first 5 stages or so of Konstructor: Engineer of the People and I managed to get through all the main modules in TIS-100)
Lightbot is a cute app for initial programming concepts through puzzles (program a robot to walk around a grid and light up various squares)
Re: Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
#45Try any popular RPG, or otherwise dialog-heavy game with quests and instructions and such, but switch the language package. For example I did this with the Diablo games to help me learn Polish. A cool part is you pick up a lot of archaic vocabulary that your average native speaker doesn't even know. :)
I did this while i was actively trying to learn korean, playing Maplestory 2 and League of Legends on the kr servers
Minorly successful, fun atleast. I'd suggest it
Re: Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
#46Raymond Smullyan's books can teach a fair bit about logic, up to about Godel's theorems and the halting problem (I remember To Mock a Mockingbird fondly), through carefully written sequences of puzzles that lead up to proofs of them. If you try to go through his books encoding the puzzles and their solutions in Coq, then you'll learn quite a lot about Coq and constructive mathematics also.
An interesting idea! I've long wanted to go through more of his books, and I've also long wanted to learn Coq, so that sounds like an interesting combination.
Have you found it worthwhile to learn Coq?
Re: Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those show up with a minute of sponsored distraction inside SO MANY youtube videos (any video about math or puzzles from the last year) that I started to dislike instead of like them An example of too much advertising having adverse effect, at least on me :p
Do you have udemy telling you Python is a powerful programming language before every YouTube video as well?
Brilliant is definitely more prevalent in the kinds of videos that I tend to watch.
Re: Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
#48https://exercism.io Learn virtually any programming language by completing series of puzzles. Tests are all written for you. They just made a huge overhaul of their UX, and it’s really nice looking. I’m using it to try to learn Rust and Elixir at the moment.
Exercism is a great resource. Their tests are thorough and reading other users' code submissions has helped me immensely.
Their new look is a lot less devilish. :)
Re: Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
#49Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 taught me the names of the various car bits and that clients never change (something is wrong, pls fix it by checking every possible part)
Re: Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
#50Play The Witness (the-witness.net). The game is full of puzzles which each teach you a different concept. It's a great experience to play this game. Avoid spoilers!
You don't learn any transferable skills tho, all you do is get better at solving The Witness puzzles.