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From the lens The Best Programming Games.

  • Mdb Apr 8, 2012 @ 8:42 am | delete
    I played two of these games when I was younger and had free time (robowar and grobots). Robowar was probably my favorite (sorry Devon) because the strictly limited processor speeds made you write very efficient code. I spend lots of time counting instructions and optimizing where the chronon breaks would be.

    Grobots has more room to explore and be creative becaus on the complexity and youth of the game.

    The original community from robowar has largely moved on. It is at least 20 years old. To get the best out of the game you would need to recruit a new bunch of players.

    Grobots has never quite achieved a critical mass of players to make it really dynamic. There is some new interest. Come joint in and we might get there.

    Matt
  • DaanBakker Apr 8, 2012 @ 11:37 am | delete
    Hey Matt,

    Yes I had the same experience! Especially grobots seems really special to me and has a lot of room left to explore, but I think what people dislike is that you need to learn a special programming language for it. Things like the AI challenge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Challenge) are really popular at the moment.
  • Rankography Sep 27, 2011 @ 6:06 pm | delete
    Great stuff. I want both of my kids to learn to program and I am going to get them to this page.
  • merylvdm Apr 30, 2010 @ 11:04 pm | delete
    Great lens - I had not heard of any of these. Am lensrolling it to my lens on teaching kids computer programming.
  • DaanBakker May 1, 2010 @ 6:16 am | delete
    I'd imagine this would be a great way to make kids enthusiastic about programming. Thank you!

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