Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 09:05:20 09/03/98
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On September 03, 1998 at 10:55:28, Christophe Theron wrote: <snip> > >You can start with a very modest program written in QBasic or VBasic or Pascal >(without any offense to these programming language). Write a program that >generates all the moves from a given chess position. > >This is chess programming. It easy enough so you can achieve this first goal, >while learning the language. It is fun enough to see your program enumerate >chess moves that you will be interested enough to succeed. > >If you proceed this way and try to reach a higher interesting goal each time, >you will both develop a real chess program and learn programming. > >The secret is: choose a (sub)goal that you can reach with enough efforts. Not an >impossible goal. And choose a really interesting goal so that you keep your >motivation day after day. When a (sub)goal is reached, choose another more >advanced target. And so on... > >And always keep it fun. The day it becomes a pain, the game is over. The only >thing needed is motivation (and a computer :) ). > > > Christophe Sounds like a great idea! Thanks.
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