intvnut Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 (edited) This isn't specifically Intellivision related, but I thought I might mention it for the interested: Coursera has a number of free, online courses, covering everything from algorithms to calculus. I just signed up for an interesting-looking course on Game Theory. I've previously taken the free AI and Model Thinking courses among others. So far, I've enjoyed them all. If you're thinking about designing a simulation game world, such as you might find in Utopia, or want to program "smart" enemies in Chess-like games, or something else that involves decisions and modeling, these courses provide a lot of insights on how to attack the challenge. I admit, part of my inspiration to reverse-engineer Utopia came from learning about all the different ways one could model an economy and population in Model Thinking. I wanted to see how Don Daglow did it in his world to compare. :-) The Model Thinking course comes back around in September, it appears. The professor that taught the AI course I took started his own online venture, Udacity. I haven't taken any of the Udacity-branded courses yet. They haven't had anything in their catalog that piqued my interest. Anyway... enough "advertising", such that it is. (Really, I'm just enjoying all these great courses!) Edited July 10, 2012 by intvnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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