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April 14, 2020
What’s up folks. For those new to this blog / who we are, good to see you here! Eamon and I are both first year students at the Olin College of Engineering at the time of publishing.
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The ‘abstract’ - a big picture overview of what we did:
Over our first semester at Olin, in an entrepreneurial spirit we learned and redeveloped Corewars: a 30 year-old computational-thinking game. Corewars was fascinating because of its potential to be used as a powerful logical programming framework. The way players could use simple assembly commands to execute code visually and manipulate data held much promise for complex logical problem-solving both in a competitive or collaborative nature.