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Primer Rooms mentions (4)

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)

  Primer | full-stack eng | staff level | SF/Bay Area onsite | https://primer.com Come join us at Primer and build the next generation education system with us. Primer Microschools are mixed-age classrooms where kids get personalized learning and get to be more ambitious, and learn to think for themselves. We are seeking a staff-level engineer to join us as the third member of our engineering team. About you:... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stopping you?

  2. https://primer.com (community for home schooled kids). - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Are there any online services that have helped your kids find friends?

  Check out https://primer.com. It's an education site where kids learn interesting things through collaborative projects. I don't know much about your situation but I would still try and focus more on in-person activities. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Platforms For Online Teaching?

  Haven't tried them personally, but had run across https://sanako.com/ and https://withprimer.com/. Looks like primer is more for home-schooling though. Source: almost 3 years ago

Screeps mentions (41)

• Show HN: Engineering Games (List)

  I've heard about Screeps which is close to what you describe: https://screeps.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Games like Stone Story RPG

  I have tried Screeps in the past, and I'm not a huge fan. I really like Stone Story, but they do not have an easy way to take your saves across multiple platforms -- you have to manually import/export your save. Source: 10 months ago

• Helping a young coder

  -For JavaScript, my advice would be to introduce coding games. That way it's more fun and the environment would be set up better (less worrying about deep technical errors). The two games that come to mind are Bitburner (free) and Screeps (free offline/paid online), though they both have their own learning curves and require actual coding; so for a 9 year old YMMV greatly. Source: about 1 year ago

• SpaceTraders: A multiplayer game built on a free web API

  A good, existing example I'd like to show you is Screeps: https://screeps.com/ Personally, when I'm in the mindset of playing that game, I can't help but come back to my bot every 30 minutes to see if it's performing well. When I see that it's doing something strange, I take notes and can't stop thinking about possible solutions. When I'm not in the mood to play (i.e. Analyze the bot or program more... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• How to set up a corporate hackathon

  I organised a small team to develop a screeps bot. Other teams made their own basic, but amusing game or explored interesting technologies. A few teams even worked on things related to the business. Source: about 1 year ago