I wish that your grandmother had been on the team I worked with. It's rare to see clear code with meaningful comments.
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
#92Very cool. My own 74 year old surviving parent would never be able to get them selves to even try, as they have spent most of their lives telling reiterating a mantra about how little they know about technology. It has been a guiding principle of mine to never do that with anything, after seeing the effect it has had on her.
Ever since I was a little kid, teaching the other little kids how to do math, I’ve believed that most people who think they aren’t able to do something aren’t able to do it because they think they can’t.
And I tell myself that every day as I try to learn guitar in my 40’s.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#93Got the word in 7 guesses! This is fun
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#94Very cool. My own 74 year old surviving parent would never be able to get them selves to even try, as they have spent most of their lives telling reiterating a mantra about how little they know about technology. It has been a guiding principle of mine to never do that with anything, after seeing the effect it has had on her.
This website was likely not made by a 70 year old grandma judging by how it was promoted on reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1enuhw5/my_70_...
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#95Very nice game!
If you like this, check out https://betweenle.com.
Betweenle is based on the same game logic, but gives you very useful visual clues along the way.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#96Only took me 6 guesses. This is pretty good, no?
I got it in 5, but it's pure luck based, right?
The optimal strategy would be to do a binary search which would take longer than 5.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#97Very cool. My own 74 year old surviving parent would never be able to get them selves to even try, as they have spent most of their lives telling reiterating a mantra about how little they know about technology. It has been a guiding principle of mine to never do that with anything, after seeing the effect it has had on her.
It’s called learned helplessness and is a good indicator for pessimism. There is a book I enjoyed that discusses the issue in depth, called: Learned Optimism, by Martin Seligman. The second half of the book is about how to become less of a pessimist, by addressing learned helplessness.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#98Very cool. My own 74 year old surviving parent would never be able to get them selves to even try, as they have spent most of their lives telling reiterating a mantra about how little they know about technology. It has been a guiding principle of mine to never do that with anything, after seeing the effect it has had on her.
This website was likely not made by a 70 year old grandma judging by how it was promoted on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1enuhw5/my_70_... https://www.reddit.com/user/Ruth_Ellaer https://www.reddit.com/user/puzzledpenguins
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Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#99I hope Grandma has some analytics hooked up to see all the traffic coming in! A small bug report: the "Share score" button on macOS Safari doesn't offer "copy" as an option for some reason. The same functionality on guess the game[0] has the same limitation, but it also copies to the clipboard automatically. Wordle[1] seems to just copy to the clipboard only. [0]: https://guessthe.game [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/ga…
Grandma is a Cloudflare Analytics user, apparently.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#100Very cool. My own 74 year old surviving parent would never be able to get them selves to even try, as they have spent most of their lives telling reiterating a mantra about how little they know about technology. It has been a guiding principle of mine to never do that with anything, after seeing the effect it has had on her.
This website was likely not made by a 70 year old grandma judging by how it was promoted on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1enuhw5/my_70_... https://www.reddit.com/user/Ruth_Ellaer https://www.reddit.com/user/puzzledpenguins
If that's the case then what's the endgame of this promotion? Strange.