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Subject: Re: Chess programming, please help!

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:06:25 02/22/03

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On February 22, 2003 at 11:36:07, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On February 22, 2003 at 00:14:14, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>I'm just curious. Is this project for college or high school?
>
>It is surely not high school. I can't imagine a teacher in high school asking
>students to make a chess program, most of who are only taking the class because
>they are required to take a "computer class". I was one of the better students
>in my high school programming class, and I was taking it because I liked
>programming, and I couldn't have written much of a chess program at that point.
>Most of the other non-computer people (the non-nerds) were struggling with other
>simple things, like getting user I/O to work, in a console program...

That's what I would think also, although I have heard of some high schools (to
use the American term) that have both beginning and advanced computer
programming courses. In one advanced class, they had to do a full fledged
database with hash algorithms and searching by various keys. It was an all-year
project of course, and I suspect that this was a private school....

jm



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