This is a really great concept and fun to play. But they need to decide if their goal is to teach people to be smarter or to make them feel stupid. The only help you are given is in the form of either an example of the result or being chided when you get something wrong. This is an inventive and sly way of teaching without being overbearing. However, it gets frustrating in some of the higher levels. Like having to find out that you can add and subtract letters just by chance. Some of the instructions seem to be deliberately misleading. And the lack of additional commands as you progress is needlessly unrealistic. Why not make them available then make the more challenge bit the optimization of not using them?Overall, I had fun with the game and think it would be a great teaching tool for kids. But they need to make it more accessible if they don't want people to just hit a level they can't pass and abandon the game. And new puzzle packs would be great.

I was very surprised at how much I like this game, didn’t think a game about basic programming would be this fun. Some of the levels are deceptively simple, and some are simply deceiving.... I don’t have any programming experience so it was a challenge to think in the way needed, I’m a visual person so I find that running through the programs while building them to see what should come next helps. The only reason I gave it 4 stars and not 5 is that it’s too short, there hasn’t been any updates to add levels and there isn’t a player-built level system to build and submit new levels. Also they could have added a more challenging set of programs to complete with higher level commands, at the very least new level packs should be added, I’d be more than happy to pay for new level packs as I imagine others would as well. Overall it’s a great game, and I really hope they expand on what they created.

I have been programming for decades, and even I found this little app very difficult. On the other hand, it is fun, and beautiful. A lot of work went into this, but if it is trying to teach programming, it is only going to succeed for the first few levels, and then (IMHO) it will be too frustrating for most. Then again, for a few, it will be a serious challenge! If you're looking for something that requires intense logic and is extremely difficult, this is your game. :-)