This book is the granddaddy of all the computer game books.

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_decBooks10Mar75_26006648

They are a bunch of simple text mode games. They're a great way to learn programming while having some fun.

I've idly thought that it would be a great vehicle for teaching D to kids. (That is, if any kids these days would have the remotest interest in a text mode game.) It's sometimes surprising to me how compact these games are that still do something clever.

Note that the listings have been OCR'd (in the downloadable PDF), which would make them a lot easier to cut/paste the code into an editor then translate away.

On Wednesday, 10 August 2016 at 11:14:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> This book is the granddaddy of all the computer game books.
>
> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_decBooks10Mar75_26006648
>
> They are a bunch of simple text mode games. They're a great way to learn programming while having some fun.
>
> I've idly thought that it would be a great vehicle for teaching D to kids. (That is, if any kids these days would have the remotest interest in a text mode game.) It's sometimes surprising to me how compact these games are that still do something clever.
>
> Note that the listings have been OCR'd (in the downloadable PDF), which would make them a lot easier to cut/paste the code into an editor then translate away.

It would also give us example code making heavy usage of goto statements. goto is badly underutilized by our community. For that matter, we don't have enough spaghetti code examples to make programmers from other languages comfortable.

On 8/10/2016 8:34 AM, bachmeier wrote:
> It would also give us example code making heavy usage of goto statements. goto
> is badly underutilized by our community. For that matter, we don't have enough
> spaghetti code examples to make programmers from other languages comfortable.

Nobody sez leave it as goto's.