Codingame - improve your skills & have fun

Codingame is a website where you:
- write a small part of game
- in the language you prefer
- let the website compile it & run it against several pre-defined testcases
- see the result graphically

Lots of challenges are available, from beginner to experienced level.

There are also sponsored challenges by eg. Nintendo

An excellent pastime in between serious stuff

https://www.codingame.com/servlet/urlinvite?u=1011159
(the URL is an invite from my account)

 

Like game jams, I fail to see the point. Just make a game.

 

It's just a pastime, nothing more, nothing less.
Something that can be completed during a short break of 10-30 minutes.
I would compare it to a writer doing crosswords in between writing two chapters of a book...

 

Can you learn from It?

 

Yes, you will learn from it, in the sense that you will try to solve problems that become gradually more difficult.
It's not a tutorial that explains step by step what to do however.
It's focused on algorithms, not eg. graphics programming, but you will see your result in game-form.
Just give it a try & solve the game "Onboarding", then "Power of Thor", and so on...

 

This is great. I remember using a website where you had to code an IA of a tank. It was fun.