Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:59:22 11/13/98
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On November 13, 1998 at 14:29:50, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >Eh? Probably the best thing you can do is look at other source code. That way >you're not reinventing the wheel. > >Check out TSCP at http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~kerrigat. > >-Tom > >On November 12, 1998 at 15:42:27, Will Singleton wrote: > >> >>Itay, >> >>For someone just starting out, you do not want to look at other's source code. >>Waste of time. Best thing to do is go to the Resource Center here at CCC, look >>in the links section, then go to the "Programming Methods and Studies." You'll >>find several good articles and links to other materials that will be very >>useful. >> >>Will I agree with Tom. Nothing says you want to copy what everyone does, but you sure ought to want to know what they are doing, and find out why. It can save years of trial-and-error that has already been done. Everyone ought to try new things, but no one ought to start from scratch without having written a chess program before, because that person will follow in the same steps everyone else took, making the same mistakes, finding the same good ideas... and then a few years later, he reaches the point where he starts looking at something *really* different...
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