i'm supposed to create a program that looks like the computer is talking to the user.Many years ago I had a copy of ELIZA and the BASIC source code... It was kind-of fun to "play with" at first, then it would get annoying... Ond one of my coworkers discovered that it would react to foul language!
It's a little advanced for an absolute beginner-programmer, but it's something you could handle by the end of your first semester. I don't remember exactly, but the version I had was something like several-hundred lines (or maybe a few thousand lines) of BASIC... not an overwhelming amount of code, and nothing too complex... Mostly just a bunch of "if-statements". For example, if the user types in "mother" or "father", ask something about parents or family, etc.
