Systems Engineering II: Factorio
Take on the game that prepares you to become a world class engineer!
Hosted by 1 expert guide
You've crash landed on an alien planet. Do you and your friends have what it takes to build a massive factory and launch a rocket to escape?
Factorio teaches Software Engineering
What you'll do:
- Meet with the same group of kids and expert guide
- Tackle exciting challenges designed to take you from beginner to expert
- Learn tips, tricks, and shortcuts to help you progress faster
- Make friends with a community of kids who share the same interests as you
- Beat the worlds hardest game
❗Factorio is a hard game. We highly encourage every kid to play on their own during the week!
Concepts Covered:
- Ratios & Rates
- Algorithmic Thinking
- Debugging
- First Principles Thinking
- Resource Management
- Root Cause Analysis
What you'll need:
- Make sure to have Steam installed
Meet the guides
Expert guides leading this course
Course updates
Updates from guides of this course
Sep 24 @ 9:46 PM
🚌 The Main Bus + Secret Island! 🏝️
Today we started building the main bus. The main bus is a way to organize and optimize the flow of resources so that we can automate various materials with a smaller likelihood of bottlenecking the process. So far we have **** lines of iron plates, and **** lines of copper plates...
Oct 8 @ 10:02 PM
Military Automation & Beacon Deconstruction Completed!
Today we:
1. Automated Biomass
2. Automated Military Tech Cards
3. Started working toward blue circuits
On Thursday we plan on:
1. Creating nuclear power
2. Automating blue circuits
We've been spending some more time at the beginning and end of each session to reflect on our pr...
Nov 14 @ 11:33 PM
We made it to space! 🚀
Today was absolute madness but in the best way possible:
- Our base was getting destroyed by biters
- We made a rocket and launched it (very anticlimactic)
- We started building out our space platform
We started the session by making a game plan, but that quickly went out the wi...
Sep 19 @ 11:55 PM
🍝 Too Much Spaghetti🍝
We're making incredible progress! As of today we have:
- Blue tech card production (1 per second)
- A massive production of trees
- A vault full of rare metals
The only problem is our mall has become a giant mess. There are too many new items that come along with this mod. This ...
Oct 2 @ 12:54 AM
We Launched a Rocket!!! 🚀🚀🚀
After ** hours of factory building and ***** ******, we reach our goal and escaped the planet!
Over the last ** months we tackled:
- ****** & *****
- ********
- **********
- ************
- ******** ************
and more!
I'm incredibly proud of ******** in this group and their ...
Oct 10 @ 9:28 PM
The Busy Builders 🧱
A few months ago our favorite part of ******** was killing *****. Today, our favorite part of ******** is building the *******. Unfortunately for us, we've built so many ************* that our ********** has aggravated several ***** *****.
Some of us spent the majority of the s...
Oct 22 @ 9:34 PM
A New Journey Begins! 🚀🧑🚀
This week the ********* DLC dropped: ********* *****!
Today we started a fresh world and discussed what type of settings we want to play on. We're aiming for a more relaxed experience that emphasizes our ability to build the factory and reach the new DLC content as fast as possi...
Sep 26 @ 9:27 PM
House Keeping, Bus Building, & Power Scaling
Today we:
- Expanded our island base
- Increased our solid fuel production
- Destroyed 5+ biter nests
- Expanded our bus
Next time we plan on:
- Building clean power
- Automating robots
- Expanding the bus (hopefully with robots)
Did I miss anything? Let me know in the comment...