Visual Studio Gets Achievements, Badges, Leaderboa

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Submission + - Visual Studio Gets Achievements, Badges, Leaderboa (geekwire.com)

Submitted by bonch on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @09:42PM

bonch writes: Microsoft has introduced a gamification plugin for Visual Studio that lets users win achievements and badges as they compete on leaderboards by writing code. The full list of achievements includes gems like 'Go To Hell' for using goto and 'Potty Mouth' for using five different curses in one file. Gamification is the latest trend to hit social media.

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