[Tutor] What is a fun basic game project.

[Andy Joslin]

Add the "Towers of Hanoi"  puzzle/game to the list.  It is the one with 
3 pegs and a few disks of various sizes that start stacked biggest to 
smallest on one peg...  The goal is to move the whole stack from one peg 
to another, only moving one at a time and never putting a large disk on 
top of a smaller disk.  Try to figure out the algorithm to solve it 
automatically.  You can build the engine to use a text display, or try 
to use a gui.

This is one that many CompSci students have to do in the first year... 

Alan Gauld wrote:

>>Hi, this is my first message to this mailing list.
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>>Anyone know of a fun game project that is good for beginners, and
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>what aspects they involve.
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>>eg. conditions, arrays etc.
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>A couple of easy games to start with are OXO and Conway's Game of
>Life.
>Both involve arrays and conditionals and loops and some degree of
>graphical representation plus user input.
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>Paper/Rock/Scissors is another that can be easily implemented in plain
>text and later have a graphical wrap added.
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>HTH,
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>Alan G
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