Hello World! Second Edition

Chapter 10. Game Time

One of the great traditions of learning to program is typing in code you don’t understand. Really!

Sometimes just typing in code gives you a feel for how things work, even if you don’t understand every line or keyword. We did that in chapter 1, with the number-guessing game. Now we’re going to do the same thing, but with a longer, more interesting program.

Skier

Skier is a very simple skiing game, inspired by a game called SkiFree. (You can find out all about SkiFree here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkiFree.)

You ski down a hill, trying to avoid trees and pick up flags. Picking up a flag earns 10 points. Crashing into a tree makes you lose 100 points.

When you run the program, it should look something like this:

Skier ...