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Hey look, infinite loops are just as fun in a game about programming! Seriously, stick f1 in f2 and f2 in f1 for good times.
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Constraining the number of explicit commands can result in actual inefficiency, as it leads to irrelevant executions for complicated routines (see level 10).
Fun game though.
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As a freelance designer for game programmers, with my semi-limited amount of programming knowledge, I found this game relatively easy. I had a little trouble on 10 because of it's erratic pattern, but after realizing I could just use redundant functions, as long as they didn't interfere with my main command I found the rest very easy.
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Pretty good. I like the concept. As someone who programs for a living, this was fairly accurate on the logic side of things. Although level 10 had an incredibly random pattern, so it was the hardest to get. 11 and 12 were trivial after that.
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I actually a lot programming. I thought the game was pretty easy except for level 10. I can't find the pattern there. Fun game, though. And the robot is cute.
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I agree with arpanet2007. when you use less lines of coding it allows programs to be more effecient, which means you can run more programs at once and accomplish a whoooole lot more. you can do basically anything with a couple thousand lines of code, but if you shorten it as much as possible you can run multiple programs which would be the equivalent of several hundreds of thousands of lines, if not millions.
It's called efficiency, and it's probably the most fundamental aspect of programming: if you cannot learn to compress your program then you will waste everyones time.
sorry SirMustapha, but the fact of the matter is program compression IS necessary.
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I thought level 11 was much harder than level 12. I may be missing something in level 11, it was the only one I had difficulty in.
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Hmm...you end up having to recursively call functions. I would have much rather have seen unlimited slots to accomplish the various goals. That way everyone (even the non-programmers) could complete the puzzles.
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I disagree SirMustapha. Less is more. The less lines of code, the less lines of instructions you can use to achieve your goals means the program will be far more effiicient. It is a flagrant waste of memory to do otherwise. At least that's what I think.
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People, don't be misled by the text at the end of the game. We're not in the 1950's anymore: programming is NOT about struggling to make as much as possible with the smallest numbers of instructions. That is NOT the logic we go through daily: we try to make intelligible, easy to maintain and, occasionally, efficient code. Sorry to break your stride, Coolio Niato, but I expected you to know that!
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