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Awesome job! If you want him to get some experience with bug fixing, I found one: ask him what happens if you click on an attack and then hit escape (it cancels the attack but still charges up your attacks, so you can get to full charge on your first attack)


yikes! thanks for the bug report


oh not "yikes" at all I totally peaked at the code to try to find one for him. I feel like bug fixing at that age is a fun exercise; it gets you thinking more laterally about the program you're writing.


No jira?


for v1 (this version) the task list was just paper and pencil

for v2 he's organizing himself using trello :)


After 25 years of professional development experience my favorite task lists are still and will always be paper and pencil. ;-)


my daily list is still just paper. There's satisfaction in striking out finished items :)


For the sake of your child, please keep him away from any and all AGILE based workflows! Such devious contraptions were not meant for the pure of soul


In the spirit of Dijkstra's quote on teaching BASIC, learning "Agile" is damaging beyond recognition. :)

Kanban boards, on the other hand, are "agile". /s

Congratulations to him on his first "real" program, I was 13 in 1977 when I started (with BASIC for my sins :) )




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