Online fun game for programmers?

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+3 Q:

Do we have any game for programmers?

I forget the name of s site in which we have to train our robot using function to travel like packman. Anyone remember the site?

+2 A:

You might be thinking about Logo. You train a turtle.

Another good + fun teaching tool for programming is MIT's Scratch project.

Chetan 2010-10-27 06:37:02

+3 A:

LightBot is one of such games, and it's great. It shows the power of standard programming approaches, and can be used even to teach children :)

Kel 2010-10-27 06:39:08

+1 A:

Not a "game", but a competition: CodeCup

I think last year's problem was similar to the one you described...

irrelephant 2010-10-27 06:54:05

+4 A:

Jens 2010-10-27 06:56:07

Not forgetting http://www.codechef.com/

Soulseekah 2010-10-27 07:02:03

..and http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/programming/ which is tons of fun

Soulseekah 2010-10-27 07:02:43

+1 A:

A modern version seems to be Robot Battle: http://www.robotbattle.com/

Otherwise there is always the classic Core War: http://www.corewars.org/index.html

Is either of these games what you were thinking of?

Michael Patterson 2010-10-27 07:09:40

+1 A:

I've had some fun with Manufactoria.

It's somewhat similar to Lightbot, but it involves a Turing-machine-like tape with symbols.

On second thought, it's not that similar to Lightbot. It's a lot more complex!

Zecc 2010-10-27 07:56:49

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