Web Animation / Think Like A Coder

Think Like a Coder is a ten-part animated series from TED-Ed teaching about various coding skills. The series follows Ethic, a coder with no memory of her past, and her robot companion Hedge in their quest to collect three artifacts called "Nodes" to save the world from the robot menace. However, in order to foil the robots and retrieve the Nodes, Ethic needs to program Hedge with specific instructions to accomplish the given task at hand.

Trailer: here

Episodes:

1. The Prison Break: Teaches about "loops".

2. The Resistance: Teaches about "conditionals".

3. The Furnace Bots: Teaches about "variables".

4. The Train Heist: Combines the lessons of episode 1-3.

5. The Artists: Teaches about coding instructions for a general class of problems.

6. The Chasm: Teaches about coding instructions to quickly solve problems that would take a long time to solve.

7. The Tower: Combines the lessons of episodes 5 and 6.

8. The Gauntlet: Teaches about "recursion".

9. The Factory: Teaches about "directed acyclic graphs".

10. The World Machine: Combines the lessons of episodes 8 and 9.

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Think Like a Coder provides examples of:

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot
• Amnesiac Hero: Ethic can't remember anything about her past. She regains more memories as she collects the nodes.
• Big Damn Heroes: Adeela catches Ethic on her motorcycle after she's sent falling by Hedge.
• Book Burning: Forced upon the people of the Bradbarrier by the Furnace Bots.
• Drunk on the Dark Side: Turns out to be the case for Hedge, who makes a Heel–Face Turn after Ethic corrects the mistake in his programming and removes the three Nodes.
• Edutainment: The series provides lessons on programming principles that can be applied to just about any programming language while wrapping them all in an adventure.
• Mineral MacGuffin: The Nodes.
• One-Winged Angel: Occurs when Hedge obtains all three of the Nodes in Episode 9. It grows to gigantic sizes, gains an inverted color scheme, and red eyes.
• Robot Buddy: Hedge.
• Shout-Out: In episode 5, Zangief and Luigi are shown in a couple of the paintings.
• Wham Episode: Episode 9. Hedge was manipulating Ethic the whole time to collect the Nodes so it can change its own progamming.