> -----Original Message----- > From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Arthur: > > To me the "game" is in getting the computer to respond to one's > > instructions, and that directing the end product to be in particular a > > "game" in any normal sense of the word is unnecessarily limiting, and - > > IMO - not as generally appealing to beginners as seems to be assumed. > > > > Perhaps the solution is to get "game" to mean anything/everything, when we > need it to.
There are head games and mind games and semantic games. And there are Purim games: http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/yreshef/purim/clown.html My father's game was boxing. Tough game. He won a tournament at college and came home proudly with the medal he earned. His stern and studious father reacted - in Yiddish. "" This, a medal? Mathematics is a medal! "" Guess I'm stuck in the same groove as grandpa, a bit. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
