In 1962, a group of programmers at MIT created Spacewar!, one of the first video games ever made. By the end of this course, you’ll build your own version of it. Along the way, you’ll learn what computer science actually is, which turns out to be less about coding and more about systematic design.
How do you design a world when you don’t know in advance how much is in it? A snake eats and grows longer, segment by segment. A fleet of alien invaders fills the screen, each one tracking its own position and trajectory. A dictionary contains a quarter of a million words, and your program needs to search through all of them. This course teaches you to build programs that work correctly no matter how much data shows up.
