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Show HN: While teaching a class of kids, I made this programming game for them (bitballoon.com)
13 points by cousin_it on June 8, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



This game is a lot of fun, and it must have been cool to implement too! The loop monster is really cute too :o

I don't know whether it's better to give solutions right away, or if they should be revealed via a hint button.


Thanks! Yeah, I thought about adding hints but decided against it because I'm lazy. Yeah, the game was very fun to implement, as you can see in view source - it's my attempt to get UI architecture "right".


I way to return to the level you where at would be nice. And tags for your jump :)


There's a back button, and lesson index is stored in a cookie so it should stick between reloads. I thought about adding jump labels, but the kids prefer going straight to "if" and "while" after finishing this thing. (Before it, they can't make sense of "while".)




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