On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Joe Ranalli <jrana...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Besides the programming aspects, one of the great things is that it teaches > about the sciences as well. Even the most trivial games require use of > basic physics concepts like vector math and the laws of motion, and require > mathematical integration for the time stepping. Game programming is a great > educational vehicle for lots of reasons. Yeah, and music programming is fun too. As well, text adventures - with natural language processing - can teach a lot about language. - Using wordnet API to construct a text adventure. cu.