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GameShell: A game to learn or teach the Unix shell

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Re: GameShell: A game to learn or teach the Unix shell

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schwartzworld wrote: post #22
kulikalov wrote: post #12

I saw many games trying to teach programming, but never heard of any of them gaining significant popularity. I wonder why? I guess "play games instead of reading books" idea attracts audience with low motivation?

We all have different ways of getting motivated and learning. You shouldn't yuck other peoples' yum. I've definitely heard of some games that teach programming skills getting popular. For example, https://flexboxfroggy.com/ http://www.flexboxdefense.com/ for teaching css layout. https://www.freecodecamp.org/ isn't marketed as a game, but absolutely feels like one when you are going through the program. https://www.ha…

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Re: GameShell: A game to learn or teach the Unix shell

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Post by franknstein »

Annatar wrote: post #15
silviot wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I (25 years working with GNU/Linux) usually name my bash scripts `something.sh`. I think it's debatable wether it's always good or bad, and when specifically it can be a good idea to leave out the `.sh`. Also, it doesn't look like you looked into the game and came out with some conclusions. It looks more like you superficially had a look, you had a thougt and rushed to comment here about what you believe is a deadly…

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It seems like you are teaching others how to teach. Is that your area of expertise?

Re: GameShell: A game to learn or teach the Unix shell

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Post by Akronymus »

thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #14

Looks like fun! Reminds me Terminal Quest: https://github.com/KanoComputing/terminal-quest

Also, lists and lists, in terms of learning something via a text game. (cant check the actual link atm because work firewall) http://eblong.com/zarf/ftp/lists.tar.Z

Re: GameShell: A game to learn or teach the Unix shell

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Post by marcodiego »

RALaBarge wrote: post #8
marcodiego wrote: post #7

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Interesting! Never heard about it. Can you give some sources or more info?

Google is your friend https://www.unix.com/man-page/bsd/1/LEARN/

Sure. I just couldn't think of a way to convince google to find the right answer. Anything like "on unix learn tool" or "unix learn command" wouldn't bring me it. What search did you use to find it on google?

Re: GameShell: A game to learn or teach the Unix shell

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Post by vultour »

curioussavage wrote: post #21
kulikalov wrote: post #12

I saw many games trying to teach programming, but never heard of any of them gaining significant popularity. I wonder why? I guess "play games instead of reading books" idea attracts audience with low motivation?

Ha, I never heard of any textbooks gain significant popularity either. I guess reading textbooks attracts audience with low motivation. In seriousness though why do you think any educational game would ever gain popularity anywhere close to popular video games.And what the popularity of the material even have to do with the motivation of its consumers???

There are (used to be?) widely recommended books for certain topics, such as K&R's "The C Programming Language". I don't think any programming games are anywhere near the popularity of these books.

Re: GameShell: A game to learn or teach the Unix shell

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Post by lapinot »

Layke1123 wrote: post #25

If you dont like running foreign code on your machine, you can run docker and then run foreign code on your machine. Did anyone else catch this in the article? Doesn't it seem like this makes it even more likely to get infected? No one understands Docker in entirety let alone this random game. It seems like all this stuff should just be automatically done behind the scenes and yet it's not.

^ bot? Doesn't make any sense to me, OP link is not an article.

Re: GameShell: A game to learn or teach the Unix shell

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Post by bravetraveler »

kulikalov wrote: post #12

I saw many games trying to teach programming, but never heard of any of them gaining significant popularity. I wonder why? I guess "play games instead of reading books" idea attracts audience with low motivation?

Typically because they lean daunting, not as fun/engaging as the proposed audience expected.

There are quite a few popular ones. Bitburner encouraged this JS hater (me) to give it a try.

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