Sunday, July 27, 2014

Sunday Afternoon

Turns out that the game of breakout , which was so popular in the Golden Age
of Children's games, was originally the work of Steve Jobs and friend Wozniak, on a request
from their then boss at Atari. Who knew?

Pset4/Hacker for 2013 lets one play with making an implementation on the Standford
Library learners project. Very nice and clear. So far:

Staff looks liked this:
 
While mine is:

 
Sure would be nice if those loop numbers could be made to yield differently colored regions of bricks!!


 
The window is 400 pixels wide and 600 in height, as per the assignment, and
one needs ten columns and five rows. The rest is up to the designer.

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