Patrik Pajer Learning through play is an idea that was famously supported by Jan Amos Komenský. The rise of various gamification (the use of game tools in non-game industries) proves the famous Czech thinker right. Game techniques are used today by every second web project that wants to teach people new things en masse. However, it doesn't happen that often that a game comes out that sets itself the task of teaching the player new things. Just such a matter arrived on macOS a few days ago, which is special even in that it is aimed at a relatively narrow segment of players. He wants to teach them regular expressions in a fun way.
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In Copy Editor: A RegEx Puzzle, you'll learn how to master regular expressions infamous in the programming community. These are used to describe a certain set of text strings that meet the requirements given by a certain regular expression. In practice, they are thus used to find different words in the text or to check the data entered by the user. One such use is, for example, checking the correct format when entering e-mail addresses. The disadvantage of regular expressions is their unreadability for an ordinary person, because at first glance they look like a random jumble of characters.
The advantage of the newly released game is that it does not require any prior knowledge from you. He carefully and patiently guides you through the world of regular expressions and, with the help of famous texts, teaches you to look for different words and replace them with others. All this justifies the demands of a fictitious publisher who does not like the original form of edited texts. While learning, you can also read in various classics, which will hopefully calm you down a bit after a series of repeated failures.
