101 BASIC Computer Games - In D?

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 10 August 2016 at 11:14:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> This book is the granddaddy of all the computer game books.
>
> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_decBooks10Mar75_26006648
>
> They are a bunch of simple text mode games. They're a great way 
> to learn programming while having some fun.
>
> I've idly thought that it would be a great vehicle for teaching 
> D to kids. (That is, if any kids these days would have the 
> remotest interest in a text mode game.) It's sometimes 
> surprising to me how compact these games are that still do 
> something clever.
>
> Note that the listings have been OCR'd (in the downloadable 
> PDF), which would make them a lot easier to cut/paste the code 
> into an editor then translate away.

It would also give us example code making heavy usage of goto 
statements. goto is badly underutilized by our community. For 
that matter, we don't have enough spaghetti code examples to make 
programmers from other languages comfortable.