Leapin’ Leprechauns! It’s St. Patrick’s Day and the leprechauns still can’t find a safe place to hide their gold. They think they’ve gotten crafty and found a better place, but this game shows they might need to try again. Similar to minesweeper, the Shamrock Treasure Hunt displays the distance to the leprechauns’ gold when a tile is clicked. Continue reading “Shamrock Treasure Hunt”
Tic-Tac-Toe
Want to make video games, but have limited programing skills? Then start here. We’ll explore a simple Tic-Tac-Toe that runs exclusively through your terminal or command prompt.
Traditional Caesar Cipher
Julius Caesar was worried. He needed to get a letter back to Cicero, the consul of Rome, but it had to travel through enemy territory. His solution? Shift every letter to the third letter after it, wrapping around so that A became D and Y became B. Here we’ll implement his idea in a computer program. Continue reading “Traditional Caesar Cipher”