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Turing Complete is a game about computer science

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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
3
submitters
3
observed span
2021–2024
peak thread · 105 comments
398 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-01-09
398 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

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I'm a simple guy, I see Turing Complete mentioned on HN, I leave a favorable comment :) Bought it couple years ago and went through a few levels, then had my (then) 14-yo son go through it during the summer break, with my occasional help. In the last level he wrote a program (in the pseudo-Assembly language that the game taught him how to create) to have the computer (that he built in the game starting from the logical gates)…

Discussed here 15 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28735441 (201 points/42 comments)

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
549

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Total comments
135

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2021-10-18Turing Complete is a game about computer scienceFirst breakoutmvdwoord14830
2023-08-21Turing Completemlejva30
2024-01-09Turing Complete is a game about computer scienceBest thread · Latest 20+ point returnthunderbong398105