Fun with MineSweeper

I spent some of today working on the coursework for our First Year programming course. Every year we get our students to create a simple game. Last year it was Battleships. This year it is MineSweeper, a game with a long and honourable history, having been shipped with every version of Windows right up to Windows 7.

One of my rules is that I don’t ask the students to do something that I can’t. At least not in the First Year…

So I spent a happy afternoon putting together a simple version of the game and writing the notes to go with it. I’m so pleased with what I ended up with that I might make a version for the Zune. It is a really nice platform for that kind of thing.

The first part of the lab goes live next week and should be great fun.

Comments

[Christo Lionet]

I fear the minesweeper. I fear it!

[Joel]

I've already written me a version of that program for funsies ;) Its just cool, that I can see just how well written it is against your spec ;)

[Simon Johnson]

Someone hurry, Rob will need to go to the burns department after that one

[Jack]

I can't really do this 'cause my computer cannot run Minesweeper.