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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Computer implementation of card gam
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Date: 7 Oct 89 09:40:20 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Oct  5 17:04:00 1989


20 questions (guess a random number) is the first game I ever
implemented, as a 14-year old in 1976, on my own with just a (TUTOR)
language manual.  I was ecstatic.  You would not believe how much fun
it was to play this stupid game.  It is much simpler than blackjack.

Other fun games that high school kids might enjoy writing: STAR TREK
(Only 80 lines of BASIC), blackjack, poker, nimh, a typing speed test
(with a record system so you can race your friends), a perfect maze
generator (a perfect maze has just one path between any two points)

Today's students will probably finish the games, yawn, and then head
down to the video parlor to play 3-D space simulation *sigh*.

Don