Exercise 27
The Five Simple Rules to the Game of Code
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This exercise is intended to be studied periodically while you study the next exercises. You’re expected to take this very slowly and to mix it with other explanations until you finally get it. If you get lost in this exercise, take a break and do the next ones. Then if you get confused in a later exercise, come back and study the details I describe here. Keep doing this until it “clicks.” Remember, you can’t fail, so just keep trying until you get it.
If you play a game like Go or Chess, you know the rules are fairly simple, yet the games they enable are extremely complex. Really good games have this unique quality of simple rules with complex interactions. Programming is also a game ...
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