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Love it. In terms of constructive feedback: I would like to know when the various weapons are "charged." It doesn't seem like we can tell from looking. Also it might be interesting to see what question the opponent is working on and what his answer is.
Perhaps a grey colour to indicate no charge and a coloured to indicated charged
Or, something small and sneaky, like a pixel changing.
[Removes cloak]
On second thought, that would kill the charm of it.
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haha that's awesome!! pounder monster is my favorite animation
After he's done with v2, might I propose... THE GAMEY GAME 3D ?? https://threejs.org/ I started coding at 9 as well (which was a long time ago now), so I was very happy to play and see this today.
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1elfo3q/m...
Backstory: My son has been learning to code. We had a breakthrough recently. I wanted him to figure out how to use the Internet as a resource, so I gave him a set of increasingly harder tasks. He was encouraged to ask Gemini and Google for help, but to try not to ask me. Although it was a rough start, he eventually figured out how to leverage Gemini. This is interesting part: When he'd ask it for information, the AI would give him a wall of text. He would rephrase what he learned in his own words and ask the AI if his understanding was correct. When he did this, the AI would give him back a nuanced response identifying where he was right and where was wrong. This feedback loop leveled up his coding skills big time. In a few weeks of this he felt confident and comfortable enough to build his game.
Here's a link to his game (called The Gamey Game) https://www.armaansahni.com/game/
And here's a blog post he wrote about his experience making The Gamey Game: https://www.armaansahni.com/how-i-coded-a-game-using-ai/
He'd appreciate any feedback (about the game, writing, code, etc). He'll be reading all the comments.
Posted to reddit four months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1elfo3q/m... Backstory: My son has been learning to code. We had a breakthrough recently. I wanted him to figure out how to use the Internet as a resource, so I gave him a set of increasingly harder tasks. He was encouraged to ask Gemini and Google for help, but to try not to ask me. Although it was a rough start, he eventually figur…
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I really have to applaud how astute you've been with your observations of how your son is learning things. That's quite difficult. Additionally, I'm glad you weren't afraid to hand your son the real tools and let him build and break stuff. For some reason with programming, so much of the curriculum (even for adults) spends a lot of effort to hide away the things that are perceived as too difficult (e.g., pointers, me…
As a programmer, I feel the 'fundamentals' are very important. Because, well, then there's no magic. I think the curriculum hides the code because its just so complicated. For example, just to build on the web he has to learn 3 different languages (HTML, CSS, JS). To do anything simple (like move a box on a screeen) there are too many choices (animated gif, CSS animation, JS animation, etc). Then there's complexity o…
However, this is not an approach that works for the masses. The vast majority of programmers are quite happy to work at the surface level and they can tackle a huge amount of the work doing things I consider too easy to be interesting. That's good, because I can't motivate myself to do that boring stuff either.
You are right that baby steps is always the way. Especially good when you can get something basic working, then test & iterate.