Algorithms

The game is a simple text editor with a real time disassembly next to it to see the actual instructions. It has also tasks embedded in the UI to facilitate learning. The tasks come with a validation tool to see if it was solved correctly. However, there are websites that do the disassembly part for free, and any text editor which combined with gcc -S <file name> would yield the same result for free and fully open source, just not as automated. For example: https://godbolt.org/. (Do not upload critical data to this) For the tasks parts any Advent of Code has many of the same ideas and levels of complexity tasks and Validators and there are also many universities offering free course material with tasks similar to the ones in the game. The only benefit is that this is a "all in one" package, but i couldn't find any easy way to import tasks or create ones yourself, despite test driven development, and testing in general, being a large part of programming. This means that once you are done with all tests, this IDE is useless. I can see the appeal of just using a text editor that does not help you to learn, but notepad++ / Kate can do the same with a terminal that runs GCC, or using Advent of Code for a free, and longer lasting learning experience. And once a language is understood most programmers resort to using common IDEs anyway that can do what this tool does and much more. I feel like this is a ripoff which might even hinder further and more free learning. A side note, their linux package does promise to deliver a license and copyright notice (in HIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt) for libjpeg-turbo but does not actually provide it. Also not really moral, but might be an honest mistake. Not sure about the other OS depot versions.