Clojurians Log v2

@bhauman and others playing Shenzhen I/O—it looks like it allows you to do in-app solution scores with other people you have as friends in Steam. I have no clue how it really works, but if anyone is interested in this, my son and I are playing via the steam account fikesfarm.

cool, have you tried TIS? is Shenzen better?

I bought it but haven't tried it yet @mfikes

Is TIS the older game by the same vendor?

http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/

not sure of the release date

I think I tried buying all of those games in one big bundle, but noticed that the bundle did not target macOS, so, I just bought Shenzen separately since it did.

TIS-100 was released in 2015 where as Shenzen was released in 2016

I'll give it a try now

@mfikes whats interesting about assembly for teaching children is that there is a lot less abstraction, i.e. no variables

moving values is explicit

Exactly, I was explaining this to my 12-yo daughter. (That she could play the game without having to learn an extensive programming language per se.)

TIS-100 is excellent in it's simplicity, whereas Shenzhen adds more complex components.

I still haven't finished all of TIS, have solved 17 out of 25 segments.

I found out about it on a pre-conference party for Dom Code where organisers printed out the manual for everyone, paired people up and let us play. It was a great idea and worked out well.

It really brought me back to my earliest programming days, flipping through the manual for locomotive basic 🙂

if anyone wants to link up on steam, i'm http://steamcommunity.com/id/ihabunek

My son and me: http://steamcommunity.com/id/fikesfarm