Complete computer science noob, is game suitable for learners with 0 knowledge of computer science?

[generalseptum]

Saw gameplay of this on youtube and thought it looked very interesting, and the first few levels I was like, hmm I understand that. And then after a little it was like complete gibberish to me. Can someone, with no outside info on all the terms and basic computer science knowledge, stand a chance in completing this game?
Additionally, I would love a demo for this. Would make it easier to decide whether it is worth the purchase

[MegaIng]

With no previous info you should be ready to google stuff. The game does not necessarily do a great job of fully explaining everything. I would suggest to join the discord and be ready the ask questions, there will be people who will try to help you through it.

[professor camp]

You just have to like puzzles to get something out of the beginning part of the game. I'd encourage anyone to buy it if the puzzle part looks fun.

To complete the game however you're going to need some understanding of assembly programming, and this game is not the best introduction to assembly programming IMO. Go play a Zachtronics game like Shenzhen I/O first, wrap your head around the very basics of assembly programming, then come back to this game.

[Alehkra]

I guess it depends on what you mean by no knowledge. I'd fiddled about with C# just a little bit before trying this, but I had no idea what a logic gate was or how binary worked, or assembly code, or most other things this covers. I've managed to play through the whole thing without looking up guides, but it did involve googling some things, and a lot of time staring at the screen being frustrated with my mess, lol.

[Trudel]

One of the downsides of this game is that it does not really explain anything. And when it does, it does a pretty bad job. Also the tasks don't make much sense most of the time (i also can't get over the fact that it uses only red and green colors instead of just 0 and 1). But that may be due to translation errors. I don't know.

BUT it is a really cool tool to experiment while learning the basics from external sources (there are more than enough). A great way to visualize and try stuff.

[MegaIng]

Originally posted by Trudel:

One of the downsides of this game is that it does not really explain anything. And when it does, it does a pretty bad job. Also the tasks don't make much sense most of the time (i also can't get over the fact that it uses only red and green colors instead of just 0 and 1). But that may be due to translation errors. I don't know.

BUT it is a really cool tool to experiment while learning the basics from external sources (there are more than enough). A great way to visualize and try stuff.

Join the discord,and you can easily make concrete suggestions for both translation and just the english text as well.

[ti175]

The game is well built in a way, that it leads you all the way from deepest basics, over building your data holder and data manipulators, up to switching them around by programming in own assembler. Each element is documented ingame, overall you get ingame all the info you need to progress and understand what you do. New terms are introduced based on a task.
Despite that, it is a sandbox puzzle game, so you have to be ready to try around and to RtFM(!!!) to really understand what you do, and not to just progress somehow.
As a rule of thumb. If you need to ask someone, most probably you did not understand previous step, or just didn't read the task description carefully.
During programming part you just have to realize, that you built a powerfull data manipulation device, and you need to analyze the problem so, that you get problem parts, which can be trivially solved with your device.
And, yea, most important: RtFM!!!

[Shogal]

For learning the theory, i recommend the Nand2tetris course which is available on Coursera mostly for free