alt Hacker News> I couldn't think of what else fun I could get them to do with only console text in/out.
maybe specialized calculators that ask some parameters (like "how many days" etc) and run some formulas
could even be useful for something
> I couldn't think of what else fun I could get them to do with only console text in/out.
maybe specialized calculators that ask some parameters (like "how many days" etc) and run some formulas
could even be useful for something
I wish I'd had a bunch of those BASIC programming books from the 8-bit home computer era, they had a ton of fun games based only on simple console input and output.