Poll at the end of this post, don't forget to vote!
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I would give a Toe to understand this.
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A toe? Really? You're putting a toe on the altar? I doubt your sincerity. But I'll spare you your toe and instead give you these simple steps:
- Download and install DevC++ with MingW (all in one easy to use package)
- Run DevC++
- Choose a program here
- (This is the toe saving step) Print out the program and retype it back in. No copy/paste.
- Press the compile and execute button
- Debug as (probably) necessary
I guarentee that if you do this, you can keep all your toes and will quickly begin to understand what's going on. The best way to learn is by doing it, and the best way to do it is with programs you already know work. Then you'll find yourself changing the output text, personalizing the game to your own designs, and one day quickly perhaps even making them yourself. That's what these programs were made for, actually. That is the original vision for
Cymon's Games. Try it out, and then let everyone here know how it goes?
Sound like too much work? Hey, you wanted to give up a toe. If I just take the pinky toe you have to learn how to walk all over. You think you don't need it, but it's got so much to do with balance. Trust me, typing a few tried and tested programs is easier than learning how to walk again.
So what program should I do next? Maybe I'll let the people decide. Here's the list of possible choices:
- Battleship (like the board game vs the computer)
- Cel Life (multi-player version of John Conway's game of Life)
- Awari (african counting game with a learning logrithm)
- 3DMaze (randomly generated mazes to navigate in first person perspective)
- Pickup Piles (1000 games in one, set the rules and play)
- Flash Cards (with pretty output, practice your math)
- Hammurabi (rule a country, build your kingdom)
- Black Box (find molecules in the inky depths)
- Joust (challange the knights of the realm for the hand of the princess)
- 4 in a Row (connect four against the computer)
- Hangman (guess the word before you dangle)
- Mugwump (find the creatures hiding on a grid with a distance detector)
- Acey Deucy (a card game of highs, lows, and middles)
- Reverse (order a list of number by turning them around)
- Stars/Trap/Letter Guess (3 games in 1 update, variations on a theme)
What sounds interesting to you?