On 5/3/2016 4:20 AM, Cai Gengyang wrote:
So I have completed up to CodeAcademy's Python Unit 2 , now moving on to Unit3
: Conditionals and Control Flow.
But I feel my motivation wavering , at times I get stuck and frustrated when
trying to learn a new programming language ?
This might not be a technical question per say, but it is a Python programming
related one. How do you motivate a person (either yourself or your child) to
become more interested in programming and stick with it ? Is determination in
learning (especially in a tough field like software) partly genetic ?
Related , This is a very well written essay on determination by Paul Graham
----------------------------------------http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html
Gengyang
I started out translating old BASIC games into Python. These are the
same BASIC games that I tried to program into my Commodore 64 without
much success when I was much younger. Many of these BASIC games are a
good introduction to classical programming problems like rolling dice
and playing cards.
http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/
When I realized that I wasn't learning enough about the Python language
from translating BASIC games, I started coding a chess engine. If you
ever look at the academic literature for chess programming from the last
50+ years, you can spend a lifetime solving the programming challenges
from implementing the game of kings.
Thank you,
Chris R.
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