[Edu-sig] Reversi

[Schmidt, Allen J.]

I must have missed the Reversi post...

I would love to get this code. Trying to get my 8th grader(14) to starting
working in Python and Zope. I work across the street from Digital Creations
in Fredericksburg, Virginia - the new home of python.org - and would love
for him to get more involved with those tools and shoot for some wonderful
LOCAL opportunities in the future. We also use Zope and Python extensively
in the group I am in working at the local newspaper...The Free Lance-Star
(www.fredericksburg.com) which is all done in Zope (the web side.)  I can
almost guarantee a job at the paper for him if I could get him interested in
those tools.

My other 3 kids (8,11,13) work on the PC and can navigate and play games,
etc. but have shown no programming interest. My son has been programming
since he was 8 in QBasic and then on to Visual Basic 5 and now 6. All self
taught. He has done some neat things but I would like to get him (them) more
involved in web technologies.

So, bottom line, I would like the Reversi code if possible, and suggestions
and directions for getting my 'gang' interested in Python. BTW, we home
school all four and I would like to have some curriculum to use to teach
programming to them. Any suggestions there are appreciated as well.

THANKS!!!

Allen Schmidt
Programmer/Analyst for
Northern VA Community College
AND also for...
The Free Lance-Star
fredericksburg.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Cohen [mailto:bic@cgl.ucsf.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 1:00 PM
To: erburley@ix.netcom.com
Cc: edu-sig@python.org
Subject: [Edu-sig] Reversi


Brent-
	Thank you for much for posting your Reversi code on the web. I
have a very sharp 9th grader TAing my intro to programming class.  
(Because kids have to be in at least 10th grade to take the class, he is
not allowed to be an official student.)  The Reversi game has been a
wonderful experience for him.  For example, he has written code to
consider move trees, and has a few different ways of evaluating the trees
for his next move.  Your code is very nice in that the student does not
have to worry about the details of how you programmed the game.  S/he can
focus on strategies.  Sam has also written a program that plays Reversi in
batch mode so that he can has the computer play thousands of games to test
his strategies.

-Bruce
        Bruce Cohen                    |  e-mail: bic@cgl.ucsf.edu
	Lowell High School             |  http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/bic



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