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Human Resource Machine LightBotBased on our record, Human Resource Machine should be more popular than LightBot. It has been mentiond 14 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
This is pretty much `assembly language the game`: https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine It's not a useful architecture, but it teaches the thought process really well, and you end up discovering a lot of optimization naturally. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
Other options have been given in this thread and I'd agree that for this particular situation the Tomorrow Corporation's "Human Resource Machine" is probably the best match. It's a constrained environment in a game that scales up to introduce this and more. Source: about 1 year ago
Not sure if 7 is old enough, I made this card "game" with my daughter when she was 10: https://punkx.org/4917/ which is not really a game but more like a puzzle, you have 54 small programs for a 4 bit made up computer (Richard Buckland's computer) and you have to interpret them in your head or with pen and paper. It's quite interesting to play with her when I change few instructions on a card. Other interesting... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
We have programming based games like Human Resource Machine and Hacknet. Source: about 1 year ago
The game us actually called Human Resource Machine and it is excellent. I've beaten that one and its sequel. But some people might find it difficult and I would say somebody in the lower grades definitely would. Source: about 1 year ago
My daughter and I play "dadbot" where I'm the robot and she has to give me clear instructions on what I should do. It started after I showed her https://lightbot.com/ but we like the "screen-free" nature of dadbot better. Eventually she jumps on my back and the game doesn't last much longer because dadbot gets tired. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
There was a cool flash browser game... I believe I played an early version pre-2010... But the main lightbot site says 2014. Source: about 1 year ago
This game looks like a clone of LightBot, a popular Flash game from back in the day. Source: about 1 year ago
Another good game for programmer students is Lightbot. Source: almost 2 years ago
That gem collection game looks like a fairly direct rip-off of https://lightbot.com/ If you have kids that you'd like introduce to some programming concepts in a fun way, I highly recommend it. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
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