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nwinteron Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children

Thanks for the mention! We are working on a side-by-side blocks-and-code mode with two-way sync that should be pretty good for this.

nwinteron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)

CodeCombat (YC W14) | FULL-TIME | REMOTE | Software Engineer CodeCombat (https://codecombat.com/about) is a programming game for learning to code. We are currently 45 people across the world, funded by a16z and YC, aiming to level up computer science education both in and out of the classroom. Long term, we are evolving education through game-based learning. We're open source and looking to add to our engineering team.

More details at https://jobs.lever.co/codecombat/7a4db25a-174f-40bd-866a-7c9...

nwinteron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)

CodeCombat (YC W14) | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | Beijing Software Engineer

CodeCombat (https://codecombat.com/about) is a programming game for learning to code. We are currently 25 people in SF and 4 in Beijing, funded by a16z and YC, aiming to level up computer science education both in and out of the classroom. Long term, we are evolving education through game-based learning. We're open source and looking to add to our engineering team in China.

More details at https://jobs.lever.co/codecombat/623b1bba-5686-4112-86ff-f99...

nwinteron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)

CodeCombat (YC W14) | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | San Francisco | Beijing

Senior Software Engineer, Senior Game Designer, China General Manager

CodeCombat (http://codecombat.com/about) is a programming game for learning to code. We are currently 18 people, funded by a16z and YC, in SF, aiming to level up computer science education both in and out of the classroom. Long term, we are evolving education through game-based learning. We're open source and looking to add a core engineer and game designer to our SF team, and a China general manager to open our Beijing office.

More details at https://jobs.lever.co/codecombat

nwinteron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)

CodeCombat (YC W14) | FULL-TIME / PART-TIME | ONSITE / REMOTE | San Francisco | Senior Software Engineer, Game Designer, Customer Support Specialist

CodeCombat (http://codecombat.com/about) is a programming game for learning to code. We are currently 15 people, funded by a16z and YC, in SF, aiming to level up computer science education both in and out of the classroom. Long term, we are evolving education through game-based learning. We're open source and looking to add a core engineer and game designer to our SF team, and a customer support specialist part-time remote. More details at https://jobs.lever.co/codecombat

nwinteron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

CodeCombat (YC W14) | FULL-TIME / PART-TIME | ONSITE / REMOTE | San Francisco | Senior Software Engineer, Curriculum Development Lead, Game Designer, Customer Support Specialist

CodeCombat (http://codecombat.com/about) is a programming game for learning to code. We are currently 15 people, funded by a16z and YC, in SF, aiming to level up computer science education both in and out of the classroom. Long term, we are evolving education through game-based learning. We're open source and looking to add a core engineer, curriculum developer, and game designer to our SF team, and a customer support specialist part-time remote. More details at https://jobs.lever.co/codecombat

nwinteron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)

CodeCombat (YC W14) | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | San Francisco | Senior Software Engineer

CodeCombat (http://codecombat.com/about) is a programming game for learning to code. We are currently 13 people, funded by a16z and YC, in SF, aiming to level up computer science education both in and out of the classroom. Long term, we are evolving education through game-based learning. We're open source and looking to add a core engineer to our elite engineering team. More details at https://jobs.lever.co/codecombat/18a8182d-938a-4e2a-b2a2-ccf...

nwinteron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)

CodeCombat (YC W14) | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | San Francisco | Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Frontend Engineer, and Sales Development Representative CodeCombat (http://codecombat.com/about) is a programming game for learning to code. We are currently 13 people, funded by a16z and YC, in SF, aiming to level up computer science education both in and out of the classroom. Long term, we are evolving education through game-based learning. We're 100% open source and hiring for roles on both sales and engineering. See https://jobs.lever.co/codecombat for more details.

nwinteron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)

CodeCombat (YC W14) | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | San Francisco | Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Frontend Engineer, Customer Success Manager, and Sales Development Representative

CodeCombat (http://codecombat.com/about) is a programming game for learning to code. We are currently 13 people, funded by a16z and YC, in SF, aiming to level up computer science education both in and out of the classroom. Long term, we are evolving education through game-based learning. We're 100% open source and hiring for roles on both sales and engineering. See https://jobs.lever.co/codecombat for more details.

nwinteron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)

CodeCombat (YC W14) - http://codecombat.com - onsite in San Francisco

We're making a programming game for learning to code. This is going to be the default way that everyone learns programming. We're 100% open source and looking for sales and engineering.

See https://jobs.lever.co/codecombat for more details.

nwinteron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)

CodeCombat (YC W14) - http://codecombat.com - onsite in San Francisco

We're making a programming game for learning to code. This is going to be the default way that everyone learns programming. We're 100% open source and looking for developers, game designers, and UI/UX.

See https://jobs.lever.co/codecombat for more details.

nwinteron The Ace of Coders programming tournament champions

Just keep clicking the red levels–those are the free ones. The blue ones are the subscriber bonus levels.

nwinteron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)

CodeCombat (YC W14) - http://codecombat.com - onsite in San Francisco

We're making a programming game for learning to code. This is going to be the default way that everyone learns programming. We're 100% open source and looking for developers and game designers.

See https://jobs.lever.co/codecombat for more details.

nwinteron Io language

If you want to play around a little bit with Io, we have an experimental Io mode on CodeCombat, so you can play in your browser: http://codecombat.com/play

If you want to play around a lot with Io, you could help us extend the parser so that it doesn't break after level 10. :P https://github.com/dariusf/iota

nwinteron Firebase is Joining Google

Congratulations, guys! Are you going to change offices, or will you still be above me?

nwinteron Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding

You probably wouldn't want to even click the TMZ link in the first place when you knew you were making the video, since the post-production is so onerous. It's like a precommitment that you're not going to get distracted. In fact, when I did my maniac week, I precommitted to not doing any post-processing, and it helped me focus a lot. I would think, "hmm, I wonder what the strongest dog is!" but then realize I couldn't slack off on video, so I wouldn't even Google it like normal.

nwinteron A Programming War Between 545 Wizards

We have experimental Python support now! blog.codecombat.com/new-experimental-languages-python-lua-clojure-and-io

nwinteron A Programming War Between 545 Wizards

Thank you! I'm tracking the bug over here and will fix soon: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/issues/1153

nwinteron A Programming War Between 545 Wizards

We do have a lot of students and teachers using it, but we haven't built a long-enough beginner campaign to provide much of a curriculum yet. That's something we'll be focusing on starting in early fall as US schools start swinging again.

Our mission is to become the way that pretty much everyone learns to program.

nwinteron A Programming War Between 545 Wizards

Can you email nick@codecombat.com to help us reproduce this? It sounds like a form is getting submitted somehow, which shouldn't happen. I haven't been able to reproduce in Firefox, Chrome, or Safari yet.

Sorry about this–we take security seriously.

nwinteron A Programming War Between 545 Wizards

Hehe, from our point of view, the intro/tutorial needs a lot of work–if you watch the playtesters, anyway. We will continue to work on it.

Most of our libraries and engines and such are listed here: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/wiki/Third-party-so...

There are probably a few more in use. If you are really interested, all the code is open source, so you can dig into it here: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat

nwinteron A Programming War Between 545 Wizards

I think you probably played the beginner levels? The tournament level in question was http://codecombat.com/play/ladder/greed

nwinteron A Programming War Between 545 Wizards

You can still play this one, there's just no tournament cutoff date or prizes any more. There are three other ongoing arenas here: http://codecombat.com/play/ladder

We're working on the next tournament level, which will be ready for playtesting soon–message me if you want to help! Otherwise, it should be launched in a few weeks, so follow our blog to know when it starts. Not sure whether there will be prizes, but there will be glory.

nwinteron Write Code, Crush Foes, Get Hired – Multiplayer Programming Tournament

Which levels didn't load for you? I'll check it out. Sorry about that!

The campaign is certainly short a few thousand levels. It will take time for us to get there, since making good programming levels is a challenge even when you aren't trying to fit them into a cohesive campaign. We'll get there, though. Lots to do!

nwinteron Write Code, Crush Foes, Get Hired – Multiplayer Programming Tournament

Oh, which player is your student? Our ten-year-old is American, actually.

nwinteron Write Code, Crush Foes, Get Hired – Multiplayer Programming Tournament

We'll keep working on the RAM needs, but yeah, that is just about the lower limit that I would expect to be able to play the game at all currently. We have a lot of work to do, but don't worry, we'll get it running on older and older hardware as we optimize. Thanks for your patience (and your students').

I've started a GitHub issue to track that coordinate selector bug: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/issues/1038 – appreciate the bug report!

Interestingly, we have a 10-year-old who hangs out in our dev chat and helps us playtest and simulate. He actually came up with a strategy that did pretty well on the ladders for this latest one, and we'd challenge our other (existing developer) playtesters to c'mon, surely you can beat the 10-year-old!

Looking to the future, we have some ideas to push that younger and younger, too.

nwinteron The Fastest Growing Open Source Project?

Unique contributors since open source launch is strange?

nwinteron Battle of Brothers: A Video Game Programming Duel

I love this. If you want any art to start off with, CodeCombat has a bunch of vector stuff that's open source and are always adding more: http://codecombat.com/editor/thang

We also have a few music tracks we've commissioned that are Creative Commons if you're interested, like http://codecombat.com/file/music/music_level_5.mp3

nwinteron How Sleep Deprivation Drives The High Failure Rates of Tech Startups

Set up some experiments using http://www.quantified-mind.com/ to see whether there's any difference in your cognitive performance when you've been sleeping for 6 hours vs. for 8. Practice the tests a few times, then start a custom experiment with your sleep variable in there. Alternate back and forth between each, maybe a week at a time, for a few weeks–test at the same time of day each day. Hit the Data Minding and see whether there's any perceptible difference in performance.

(Disclaimer: I wanted this to exist, so I helped Yoni build it.)

nwinteron Introducing Competitive Multiplayer Programming

Yeah, it's going to be awesome when we can do this: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/wiki/Summer-Project...

It'll be hard, but not as hard as what we've already done with sandboxing and live-coding user programs, and it'll be truly epic.