What Toy Apps would you write in order to learn a language?

Re:What Toy Apps would you write in order to learn a language? by komapc on Monday February 21, 2011 @08:08AM (#2245257)

I write "snake" when I learn a new language. (for now, c64 basic, qbasic, borland pascal, C, C++, C++ with OpenGL, Python, Haskell, Javascript). It works.

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Re:What Toy Apps would you write in order to learn a language? by oemera on Monday February 21, 2011 @08:18AM (#2245288)

Amazing. I would love to do that too but first of all I need to know how to write snake in a language I already know.

I will try that out in Python and let you know how it is going :D

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Re:What Toy Apps would you write in order to learn a language? by mattdeboard on Monday February 21, 2011 @08:28AM (#2245316)

Yeah, Snake seems like it should be a canonical Python exercise, given the name.

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Re:What Toy Apps would you write in order to learn a language? by sagacity on Monday February 21, 2011 @08:57AM (#2245384)

That would work. You'll have many things straightened out by the time you finish creating the snake. :-)

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