Learning Python – A first foray into games & graphics
I have started close to 50 game projects in the last few years, many reached only planning stages but a few resulted in something somewhat playable. I’ve used a couple of technologies, text & canvas web games and DarkBasic, however neither really felt ideal to me.
Programming a game in canvas requires too many different languages: Javascript, PHP, HTML & MySQL if you want any persistance; while the syntax of DarkBasic is not to my liking and as a language it has some very frustrating structural limitations.
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There is a fantastic book that deals with the history, philosophy and genius of maths called Alex’s Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos. I’ve just finished reading the chapter on probability in which he discusses the birthday paradox.
This is the idea that in a group of 23 people there is just over a 50% chance of having 2 people who share the same birthday. At first glance this doesn’t seem true, but through a series of logic and probability proofs Bellos shows this is indeed the case.
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