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my thoughts on the swift playgrounds app for iPad

By molly, 15 December, 2016

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hi guys.
I just wanted to give my thoughts on the swift playgrounds app for iPad. i'm really glad that it's fully accessible with voiceover and I do think it's a great way to learn to code. however I find that when you have to guide the character around the 3-D puzzle world I find the grid a little confusing. I guess I'm having a little trouble visualizing the grid. I keep picturing the grid like how you would make a spreadsheet with Microsoft excel. making spreadsheets is easy. I don't know if I'm supposed to be picturing the grid like a spreadsheet. Is anybody else having this issue? I only got through the first puzzle so far. basically I'm having trouble figuring out which way to move the character to collect the gem.

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Hi Molly,

By Sean Randall

5 years 5 months ago

Hi Molly,

It's quite OK to think of it as a spreadsheet, although the world is 3 dimensional, so you have elevation to worry about as well as x and y coordinates. There's also places in later puzzles where you can't go.

In the first puzzle Byte starts at 2,1.
The gem is at 2,4. Byte is facing north, so a move forward takes him to 2, 2. A left turn after moving to 2, 2, followed by another forward move, would take him to 1, 2.

I hope that explains things enough to get you started.

Sean.

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