Early Coding Experiences - Tic Tac Toe on Scratch, 2014.
Coding is a fun, but mostly a powerful way to get things done. I started with games, and it was in my internships, and lately with some of the projects at school that I have seen examples of how it can be used to get some “real” things done.
The world is digital after all.
Back in 2014 I started playing around with Scratch and the first project I did was the game of Tic-Tac-Toe. My code is published here:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/54473430/
It was a simple game with one gamer playing against the computer, where the code would ask the gamer to input an action, validate that this was a feasible action, play it, and then have the computer play. At every point in time it would check for whether it needed to terminate the game, either because there was a winner or because there were no more moves to make.
My next project that I started sketching was to write a program to have the computer play itself, and then learn what moves are better than others. I quickly realized that my code was not suitable for doing that and that scratch was clunky as a language to do such iterative programs. It was at that time that I started to pickup Python.
