Game-to-Code

Brief Summary

Game to Code is a project designed to increase understanding of computers and computer programming through the novel use of computer games.

Millions of people are "plagued" by the difficulties of using computers because they haven't learned how to actually use them.

This game was designed by our TSA chapter, to ease the difficulty of learning programming. The game goes step by step to teach the parts, data structure, and sequences that a computer goes through to process information.

Licensing

How to run

Blockly requires a standards-compliant, HTML5 web browser in order to run. Browsers that work on the local harddrive are:

• Firefox (tested as of 25 June 2013)

TODO

Bugs

The blockly libraries will not work in Chrome locally. The failure of chrome to work is a bug due to the security that chrome has built in that does not allow direct loading of trees.

The blockly libaries will not work in Internet Explorer 1-9 due to the lack of HTML 5 compliance.(Tested as of 3/14/2013)

Instructions to get started

If you are on Linux or OS X

git clone https://github.com/arw12625/Game-to-Code.git
cd Game-to-Code
git submodule init
git submodule update
source oss install
oss compile             # See note 1
oss view                # Open the program in $BROWSER, defaults to firefox

If you are on windows, run download.bat as administrator, which will download cygwin and its dependencies, which will take some time, then it will launch it for you to install. This process is lengthy, so please be prepared to wait a decent chunk of time, so in the mean time you can just use http://www.game-to-code.us/online