The challenge I chose to face this week was to try some coding. I am super interested in coding and what it initials so I thought I would share my process with you!
Coding is the process of designing and building a computer program. Coding is pretty much a secret language that would take forever to figure out! Last week I was on a school trip in Seattle, Washington. One of the stops we took along the way was at the Living Computers: Museums + Labs, building. Here my class and I learned all about the history of computers and programming while also playing around with some programming ourselves. I spent most of my free time at the museum playing a game called Zork.
Zork was written between 1977 and 1979, and it is a game of mystery and crazy scenarios. Zork was written with MDL programming on a DEC PDP-10 computer, which looks like this. (I know, insane that this is a computer!)
In this game the computer was only able to process the answer, and so if you got it wrong it would only answer you with, “I do not know the word____.”
To play Zork you had to get in using code. There were certain password and letters to let the computer know which game you wanted to play. Playing Zork changed the way I see games and apps now because of the fact that it shows you the complexity behind each click.
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