gaming humble bundle

[woolwind]

 

https://www.humblebundle.com/freedom

 

$600 bucks worth of stuff for $30 all of which goes to some good causes - your choice of ACLU, Doctors without Borders, and International Rescue Comittee

 

One of the games included  is Human Resource Machine, which I highly recommend as a fun way to learn computer programming skills

[vlatkozelka]

20 hours ago, woolwind said:

One of the games included  is Human Resource Machine, which I highly recommend as a fun way to learn computer programming skills

Quote from the game:

"Don't worry if you've never programmed before - programming is just puzzle solving. If you strip away all the 1's and 0's and scary squiggly brackets, programming is simple, logical, beautiful, and something that anyone can understand and have fun with! "

I'm not okay with this >:(

What happens when you actually need to use the 1's and 0's like I've been doing all night yesterday huh?! You'll end up in a mess that you don't know how to dig yourself out from because you never learned the basics and went with the "oh programming is simple and fun with games *insert flowers and rainbows*" crap !

Here's some squiggly  brackets for you, along some nice pointy bit-wise operations, some castings, an allocation and assignments, how simple C:

byte[] xBytes = new byte[]{
                        (byte) (x >>> 24),
                        (byte) (x >>> 16),
                        (byte) (x >>> 8),
                        (byte) x};

I REALLY HATE all these promotions trying to promote programming as simple. IT IS FUN but hell no it's not simple !

All this is doing is getting people shouldn't be allowed to code to take jobs of people who can actually do it (not me I got a decent job :p)

 

I know it's not the place for it but I just couldn't resist + I got a mechanical keyboard that's clicky and fun to type with that I try to squeeze every second of typing now lol

No offence wool ;)

OFFENCE TO THE PEOPLE WHO TRY TO PROMOTE PROGRAMMING AS SIMPLE >:(

*feel free to delete this rant or move it or hide it or put it as desktop background or w.e just please stop this "programming is simple propaganda" , it makes me sad :(

 

 

 

 

[Charre]

I agree with Vlat, programming is not simple (which is why i suck at it and gave up years ago ;P)

[woolwind]

you should look closer at the game, it is not like scratch, it is more like gamified assembly language. You learn a great deal about how computers think at the microprocessor level. If you grasp that, higher level stuff makes so much more sense.

[ehh]

has vlat even played it

[dippy]

It's probably not targeted at people with an understanding of how to code and the complexities involved...

[woolwind]

ps, that isn't C above, it is C++  ;)

[AnThRaX]

12 hours ago, dippy said:

It's probably not targeted at people with an understanding of how to code and the complexities involved...

I agree with you, it most certainly is targeted at a demographic that may think coding is too complex for them to understand and framed in a matter which can be fun and engaging, kind of like when you're little and you are taken to the library to play arcade games where doing basic math problems reward your character with ammo for their lazer blaster and other shit like that.  If you already knew how to code why would you waste your time on a game that teaches you how to do it?

[vlatkozelka]

8 hours ago, woolwind said:

ps, that isn't C above, it is C++  ;)

It's Java actually but these are low level operators anyway :p

You guys misunderstood me, I'm not flipping out on the game in particular, but more on the general idea saying that "programming is simple" when it's not!

[dippy]

18 hours ago, AnThRaX said:

I agree with you, it most certainly is targeted at a demographic that may think coding is too complex for them to understand and framed in a matter which can be fun and engaging, kind of like when you're little and you are taken to the library to play arcade games where doing basic math problems reward your character with ammo for their lazer blaster and other shit like that.  If you already knew how to code why would you waste your time on a game that teaches you how to do it?

That was pretty much my point.

[ehh]

17 hours ago, vlatkozelka said:

It's Java actually but these are low level operators anyway :p

You guys misunderstood me, I'm not flipping out on the game in particular, but more on the general idea saying that "programming is simple" when it's not!

it has levels to it, like everything else.

2 more games added to the bundle btw