Object-oriented adventure game
Relevant sections in text: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
The assignment introduces object-oriented programming and a simple model of inheritance. The object system presented here is based on the one presented by J. Rees and N. Adams, ``Object-oriented programming in Scheme,'' in the 1988 ACM Conference on Lisp and Functional Programming. One of the underlying messages here is that in a language like Scheme, which includes first-class procedures, it is easy to implement a variety of object-oriented programming models. If you plan to use this assignment, we recommend that you present a lecture on the material covered in the supplementary notes included below.The actual assignment has students extend and modify an adventure-style game, where the objects are people, places, and various magical things. The particular setup presented here includes a lot of MIT-specific places and jokes, and you should modify it accordingly. The inclusion of a troll who eats the course lecturers, or consigns them to some other horrible fate, is highly recommended.
Files for download:
ps6game.tex
exercise1.ps
meta-advent.ps
| TeX source for the assignment and postscript sources for figures. |
ps6game.ps
| Postscript file for printing the assignment |
notes.tex
| Tex source for supplementary notes on object-oriented programming. (Sources for the figures are missing -- sorry.) |
notes.ps
| Postscript file for printing the notes. |
game.scm
world.scm
| Scheme source code required for this assignment. |
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