Reddit reviews Badass: Making Users Awesome

So, first I'm going to respond a little bit oddly, and recommend reading Badass by Kathy Sierra. It's a book about really helping your users, and it gave me much to think about when I was writing my own site.

For a more immediate thing, if your target audience isn't for people who already have a programming background (I'm unclear who you're targeting) possibly think about providing an easier puzzle to work out a deterministic algorithm fors. Take LightBot (the original flash game version) for example - each level is a puzzle you work on, that has many possible solutions, but in each case there's a reasonably obvious algorithm for you to implement, which makes it accessible to those unfamiliar with the concepts already. Exploring the entire problem space with a breadth-first search, or using heuristics to avoid doing so with A*, already assumes a level of familiarity with a range of concepts. That's not a bad thing if it's intentional - I mention it in case it's not.

It’s not really “new” ... it came out in 2015 but it’s just like you said, nobody really knew about it. Mods if you need to delete this I understand. I can send it as a DM if it’s necessary. There’s no referral code or anything like that.

https://www.amazon.com/Badass-Making-Awesome-Kathy-Sierra/dp/1491919019

Here is the mobile version of your link

I second meet ups and I have found that the best resources from from those recommendations.

For book I absolutely love Badass: making users awesome in terms of how to think about product development.