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Prince of Persia in JavaScript

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Re: Prince of Persia in JavaScript

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Post by marcodiego »

FrankyHollywood wrote: post #106

Awesome! Takes me back :) My 8 yo son is playing it now, he knows all the modern consoles, but this is challenging him. He is frustrated things are hard from the beginning, jumps don't work right away and he stopped after a few minutes. I remember my perseverance as a kid. I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. Everything works for them and is lay…

My biggest problem with this: this effect does not affect only children. I see students learning to program giving up at the first syntax error; some don't even care about reading compiler messages and trying to fix them.

The first successful code I wrote was the following:

10 input a 20 input b 30 print a+b

I was around 12, without manual or online help and it was trial and error for an entire weekend until I got this right. Very few people I know today used to tech would have such perseverance.

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Post by ikiris »

comboy wrote: post #58
ikiris wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because we don't want to have to readjust everything else around your special snowflake site?

I mean it sincerely. Are you listening to something else while using a website with sound? I usually just pause the music. If it's some music/podcast isn't it more handy to have a known volume knob on that instead of finding one on every website? I don't care about the right opinion. I'm just curious about scenarios where lack of volume control is a problem.

Yes, discord and twitch stream at minimum.

Re: Prince of Persia in JavaScript

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Post by markus_zhang »

wsc981 wrote: post #119
FrankyHollywood wrote: post #106

Awesome! Takes me back :) My 8 yo son is playing it now, he knows all the modern consoles, but this is challenging him. He is frustrated things are hard from the beginning, jumps don't work right away and he stopped after a few minutes. I remember my perseverance as a kid. I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. Everything works for them and is lay…

> My 8 yo son is playing it now, he knows all the modern consoles, but this is challenging him. He is frustrated things are hard from the beginning, jumps don't work right away and he stopped after a few minutes. I remember my perseverance as a kid. That’s why it’s your parental responsibility to start playing games with your kid early, starting with the oldest consoles up to modern times: https://medium.com/message/…

This is really good. In the meantime my Chinese parents who believe video games are evil and whoever make them are moral monsters will only agree that I try something similar for my son over their dead bodies.

Re: Prince of Persia in JavaScript

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Post by aidenn0 »

jclevy wrote: post #61

Great job! It's amazing to be able to feel again the sensations I had 30 years ago while developing the Atari version of this game. Thanks again!

Oh, Atari ST; I assume that's where the graphics for the JS edition are from? It looks far to good to be the Apple version...

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Looks like there were many ports with similar looking graphics: https://www.mobygames.com/game/apple2/prince-of-persia/scree...

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inputvolch wrote: post #189
paulluuk wrote: post #159

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> I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. > Don't know how this will affect them on the long run. Now it's only my observation. I realize that you're only talking about your own kids, but I have a feeling that many people on here consider this to be some kind of general rule for all kids, akin to the "back in my day" rhetoric of the generations bef…

I would hate to work with a person who subscribes to these strategies. Someone who can't form their own opinion and looks for the easy way out above all else. Suddenly anyone in the future with the ability for critical thinking and problem solving beyond "do they have an app for that?" is going to inherit the Earth.

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Re: Prince of Persia in JavaScript

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inputvolch wrote: post #189
paulluuk wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. > Don't know how this will affect them on the long run. Now it's only my observation. I realize that you're only talking about your own kids, but I have a feeling that many people on here consider this to be some kind of general rule for all kids, akin to the "back in my day" rhetoric of the generations bef…

I would hate to work with a person who subscribes to these strategies. Someone who can't form their own opinion and looks for the easy way out above all else. Suddenly anyone in the future with the ability for critical thinking and problem solving beyond "do they have an app for that?" is going to inherit the Earth.

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