12. What makes a game?

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What you will learn

Programmers have been creating games for as long as we’ve had computers. I think that you should try your hand at writing some games even if you don’t intend to go into game development. For one thing, getting good at programing is all about practice, and games give you a great place to write lots and lots of code. But the main reason is that developing games let you “doodle” with code with no fear of failure.

When you create a game, you don’t have to worry about meeting a specification or implementing the “right” way to solve a problem. You can just write something that might be fun and then find out ...

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