The C Pointer Game Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Tell HN: UC Berkeley's CS61A/B/C are the best courses to learn CS and coding

  Now I am teaching my daughter and I spent about 3 days per week just on pointers and strings (We even made a card game we play from time to time https://punkx.org/c-pointer-game/), and I can see when she is stuck and what exactly she is stuck on, but how can you do that with 30 kids, when the most subtle nuance in the questions they ask can give you the deepest hint in what they are missing? - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• A question regarding pointers

  I also made a card game to explain strings arrays and pointers to my daughter https://punkx.org/c-pointer-game/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Legal question – liability for printed card deck of computer pranks

  Hi I am teaching my daughter how to code, and now I am running various pranks on her computer. For example, every time you alt+tab there is a weird beep sound, or the computer randomly restarts every 10 minutes, or after 10 minutes in Minecraft the keyboard presses 'W' for 3 seconds, or I move her mouse remotely and etc... (some are extremely evil, like stopping half the internet 128.0.0.0/1 or 0.0.0.0/1... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• 14 year old wants to learn coding

  The approach is using python and c and sometimes go, but we also do hardware things with servos and arduino and I also make card games (like https://punkx.org/c-pointer-game/ ) that you can print yourself and use offline. Source: about 1 year ago