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There is a game about making an automaton that translates things to Brainfk though https://www.codingame.com/multiplayer/optimization/code-of-t....

You're the third person to ask for this on this HN post :) I'll just copy-paste my answer now

We have a lot on our plates right now so adding new languages isn't the main priority, however we add languages based on the number of upvotes on suggestions in our dedicated forum thread

https://www.codingame.com/forum/t/please-add-the-following-p....

Do not hesitate to go there and vote/ask for Common Lisp

We have a lot on our plates right now so adding new languages isn't the main priority, however we add languages based on the number of upvotes on suggestions in our dedicated forum thread

https://www.codingame.com/forum/t/please-add-the-following-p...

Do not hesitate to go there and vote/ask for Common Lisp

Not so much but it's an old architecture that dates back before docker/container techs came around, so it's kind of a pain. We're looking into a better architecture that would allow us to add any language in a couple hours

Thank you, we appreciate this a lot :)

Full disclosure: I work at CodinGame.

CodinGame has been around since 2012, and we've seen the rise and fall of Starfighters. We are doing fine with a community of 500K+ developers, and I think the main difference with Starfighters is that we have the momentum and strength of a full company (~20 people). Our code execution backend is starting to be pretty robust now, we can make games with pretty good graphics, we have a sales team that can handle the partners of our worldcups and follow-up on the hires.

I think it would be harder today to create such a company and get the momentum we have.

There is python2 and python3, they are just separated languages

There is a game about making an automaton that translates things to Brainfk though https://www.codingame.com/multiplayer/optimization/code-of-t...

Last year was Advent of Code ( http://adventofcode.com/ ) and while they did not name them, each exercise was based on a known algorithmic problem (knapsack, traveling salesman, ...), and it was a fun way to engage people in a "1 exercise a day" pattern.

I guess you can also try your hand at CodinGame's puzzles ( https://www.codingame.com/training ) as they also involve known algorithms and they are realy fun to play.

But ultimately, both of these resources won't teach you how to implement algorithms.

Hi!

* Note that I'm a CodinGame employee, so my answer might be biased.

Thanks for the feedback :) It's really appreciated. Coding with friends is always more fun than learning to code alone, and if you want to onboard your friends onto programming, maybe you can also take a look at our "Clash of Code" category.

https://www.codingame.com/multiplayer/clashofcode

These are short coding "battles", from 5 to 10mins, where you can challenge your friends in small coding exercises (filter prime numbers, find how many ones there are in a binary representation, that sort of things). You can create private clashes and play together with your friends

Hi! * Note that I'm a CodinGame employee, so my answer might be biased. The business model is mostly based on connecting developers who like to code with companies who are in need of programming workforce. We host online programming contests on our platform (there's actually one coming up on saturday) and depending on your performance (so, anonymously), you can land a job at one of the sponsor companies.

CodinGame | Montpellier, France | INTERNS CodinGame is an online coding platform, where developers can train, learn, improve their programming skills, but also play, challenge their friends and compete in programming challenges. The programming contests are also a way to get noticed by other tech companies and land a development job.

We are looking for generalist engineers since our platform supports 20+ programming languages, but our stack is mainly AngularJS and Java.

Check out our platform and apply at https://www.codingame.com/careers/programming

Why not simply out of curiosity ? People have a tendancy to assume tech people are men, or that people on the internet are men. I myself always picture HN users as 25-35 y.o white men with a beard and glasses. The Silicon Valley stereotype. Sometimes it's interesting to get a picture of what the HN community is actually made of, without any other conclusion than "oh, ok."

Have fun making tapestry art ! Any remark is welcome.

What we are mostly proud of that may gratify your intellectual curiosity, is that everything is client-side, there is no back-end. Even when exporting. So you can download a zip of the application, run index.html and you're good to go.

Well you could launch a website istheslinkyslinking.com with a live cam that shows your contraption at work with the regulation and everything ;)

You could even ask for donations with a "keep the slinky slinking" button, so you could pay for electricity and server.

There was a kickstarter for a Never Ending Slinky Machine, if you want a more portable thing that you could put on your desktop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mISz-_ahvh4

But their website (creatables.co) seems down at the moment.

Hi, I don't really get your point. This character   is clearly not the minus character - (apart that they don't actually look alike, just compare the codes, minus is 45, this one is 5760).

So nothing out of the ordinary that this special character is ignored by the JS engine. You can put it almost anywhere it will just toss it while processing the command. Hence, this works too

 $ ( "#result" ). append (2 +  40) ;