the prototype pattern reality doesn' care if you believe in it --boba fettstarwars extended universe the problem can still remember the very first time wanted to program anything this was at time when dos could not address more than mb at timeand thus our massive mb hard drive had to be partitioned into two drives it was beige olivetti xt the local library had section with computer books in it one of thema very thin softcoverhad picture of game character on it the title promised to teach you to program your very own games in classic case of youthful ignorance swayed by false advertisingi worked through every exampletyping out the characters one by one ( could not read english at the timeso really had no idea what was doingafter about the tenth timei got everything entered correctly into the gw basic interface that came with the computer did not know about saving and loading programsso every mistake meant starting from scratch my crowning moment fell completely flat the "gamei had worked so hard on turned out to be simple for loop and an if statement the premise of the game was that you were in runaway car and got three chances to guess number before the car ended up in dam that was it-no graphicsno soundno pretty colorsjust the same text question three times and then"you are dead getting it right resulted in simple message"yayyou got it right beyond the first steps even though my first program was complete let-downthat magical moment when picked up the book for the first time and believed that could program gameor anything could dream ofstuck with me (cwessel badenhorst badenhorstpractical python design patterns