Maybe I've been ruined by the internet, but a grandma didn't write this.
Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
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Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#132Cool game, grandma
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#133Check the source. No chance a grandma wrote this
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#134I read the domain name as Grandma Sword. Maybe her next project :)
I read this in Sean Connery’s voice.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#1353 guesses. no lies.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#136Maybe I've been ruined by the internet, but a grandma didn't write this.
It's probably more akin to "my son's first book" being co-authored by both parents and each set of their parents, proofread by sister, and sent to a professional printing house to be sent back on thick glossy paperboard.
I'm just jealous to granma doesn't understand DNS
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#137This put a smile on my face, great work grandma.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#138One time when I was in the Unix computer lab in college, testing my C skills on a Sun workstation, an old lady sat down at the workstation next to me. She must've been between about 70 and 80 years old, maybe older, and she had a notebook which, as it lay open, I saw C++ code hand-written in it in her spidery, old-lady hand. I thought, huh, well it's never too late to start learning this stuff!
There's also the case of the 80-some-year-old Japanese lady who wrote her own iPhone app, a game about arranging traditional Japanese paper dolls: https://social-innovation.hitachi/en/article/colors-wakamiya...
If you're retired, bored, and have a lot of time on your hands, learning tech proficiency and programming seems a good way to pass the time and help keep your mind sharp. Just as it was for us bored kids back in the day.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#139This is a fun game and it's harder than it looks! I'm impressed! She should produce a random word from the dictionary instead of hard coding it, and keep it going!
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#140This is a fun game and it's harder than it looks! I'm impressed! She should produce a random word from the dictionary instead of hard coding it, and keep it going!
Then you can't compete with friends and family, sending links, spreading the game...