It’s extremely important as technologists that we keep up to speed with some basic algorithms and principles of computer science. It’s difficult when you are bombarded with all kinds of new technologies to go back to the basics now and then.

Igor has a new take on solving problems and it makes use of some computer science concepts such as recursion and loops. It’s called RoboZZle and it’s a puzzle game coded in Silverlight.

RoboZZle is an online puzzle game that challenges you to program a robot to pick up all stars on a game board. The game mechanics are simple, yet allow for a wide variety of challenges that call for very different solution approaches.

The game is well put together and the controls are simple enough. Although, I thought that in the beginning the buttons were supposed to be dragged and not clicked and dropped onto the empty method call.

The reason for highlighting this game is the amount of developers that just seem to skip the basic concepts and when it comes to solving a basic problem.

This highlights an entry made by Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror and now more recently the amount of boom of Stack Overflow.