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A Video Game That Teaches You How To Code

“I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think,” Steve Jobs said in a lost interview from 1995.

But for a beginner, learning to code from scratch can be intimidating.

Enter CodeSpells. UC San Diego computer scientists developed this video game to teach people how to code. The story line is simple: you’re a wizard that uses spells (i.e. code) to navigate through the world, fight off foes, and solve problems.

While experienced coders can delve deep into the programming to create some truly devastating spells, newbies can easily experiment with the simple drag-and-drop coding interface.

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I was thinking the other day and wondered if there was a link between the name Epona, the horse from Legend of Zelda games, and the etymology behind stuff like ‘eponym’, etc because I thought it’d be funny if it turned out that her name was basically Name or something dumb like that.

But no, it’s probably from Epona, the goddess who was a protector of horses, mules, and donkeys, and whose name is Gaulish and means ‘Great Mare’. Oh and she was a fertility goddess sooooo……do with that as you will.

But basically Link named his beloved mare Great Mare. That’s…just…wow very inventive. This is why he never gets the Triforce of Wisdom.