JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator

It's not bad, per se, but it requires a very specific type of thinking - same problem, really, when one is trying to find answers on Stack and gets condescending, annoyed or unhelpful responses, because most people who could potentially help don't know how to speak human, and it's somehow chalked up to being a fault of the one in need of answers. I sort of like it, but I can't recommend it, because those who want to learn Python and haven't yet (i.e. people like me, who are looking for a playful way of learning, because they can not just grind through hours of YT videos or make up random use cases and code those) will highly likely find this frustratingly vague, and be either a bit lost or end up relying too much on the included video - which is basically giving them the solution readily made and packaged. The explanation in the videos I found especially tedious - like, I can work out 99% of the logic myself, that's not the issue. The actual problem is the HOW. It doesn't help that I'm running a Radeon 5700XT, and despite the latest drivers and fully updated system, the game crashes every 10 minutes. I don't know how much of that has to do with the game itself, it's not the only problematic title I own, but it's one of the most fickle ones for sure, 4 hours in and I'm very rapidly losing my patience, having to restart all the damn time. A bit of positive: if your overall way of thinking or some basic prompting skills allow you to solve the puzzles, it's actually quite a good little game. I love that people can upload their scores and their code with the assignments, so one can browse the leaderboard, and download/look at some of the top players' code. It helps a lot in learning to optimize and find other ways to solve the same tasks. I also enjoy that I can "go the extra mile" and write something that makes the solutions not just functional but also elegant - at the expense of a few extra lines of code and some minuscule speed and/or efficiency trade-off (like pretending to save power, and only running conveyor belts when absolutely necessary).

Désolé je pensais apprendre le codage sur ce jeux , mais comme j'y connais rien en anglais je suis perdu , y'a des vidéo tuto dans le jeux qui sont complètement en anglais même si l'interface de jeux est en Français ça ne sert a rien , je trouve pas de logique mais bon je parle uniquement le Français je me retrouve perdu dans le jeux

I did not enjoy this game at all. I thought it would be about a lot of puzzles that you need to create creative and clever algorithms for. Instead I spent much more time repeatedly learning about the new systems and what commands they take, and then once I had learned the commands the puzzles felt incredibly simple and straight forward. I don't need to learn the commands for a new fictional digital system every 30 minutes. I want to solve puzzles where I have to cleverly design algorithms and figure out what conditionals and loops I need to implement. Instead, it seems like the puzzles are all fairly simple but their "challenge" is that you need to relearn the environment every time. That's not a coding puzzle, that's just resetting your environment and forcing you to build from scratch.

Such a great idea! It's a fantastic way to code, having something actually happen its very rewarding. However the game is definitely not for beginners unfortunately. I'm not even a total beginner and it s too difficult for me. Saying that though, there's a video on YouTube for most if not all of the levels so its a great way to learn new code. I've searched everywhere for a experience like this but for learners - alas, none of them as cool as this.

На моём компе работает через раз. Максимум, что удалось - пройти обучение. На конвейерах даже подсказки программы при описании ленты, вставленные в код, при отладке вызывают ошибки. Настоятельно не рекомендую. Может когда-нибудь исправят, но не верю.

Doesn't hold your hand, but very rewarding and fun to figure out

Enjoying the game so far

I. Like. Pain.

Absolute piece of garbage. Got through the tutorial, only for the next objective video to be stuck on the screen with no way of minimizing it because the X doesn't respond to mouse clicks. Impossible to even play the game and Steam wouldn't refund. Trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seems to be a great educational tool thus far, takes me hours to do anything, but i would hope that's exactly what'll make it stick.