On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:36 AM, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN <d...@psu.edu> wrote: > I would echo the recommendation of teaching something you are already > familiar with doing. Perhaps you can find a different class hierarchy to > work > with. > > I remember that the first time I really began to grok OOP was in a > text-based MUD environment. In the application area, clearly > everything was an object (sword, bag, apple, etc.) Some objects > were living (like player charaters and NPCs). Many objects also > served as containers (bags had contents, rooms had contents, > players had an inventory). And the polymorphism that came with > OOP allowed me to even simulate a ship, which was one object > whose inventory included several rooms, so as the ship moved, > so did everything on board. > > And there was no GUI required for it -- so no issues there. > > It's been a couple decades or so, but that interpreted object-oriented > language LPC might still be out there somewhere.
There are still plenty of MUDs that use LPC. There is also a general-purpose language Pike that is descended from LPC. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
