Down the Oregon Trail with Functional C#

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Recreates the 1975 Oregon Trail by rewriting ~5k lines of HP Time‑Share BASIC into modern C# and ships a playable console version; enforces near 100% unit test coverage and wraps IO with discriminated unions so inputs are Maybe<string> / Result types; models game State as immutable record types, injects time and RNG services for deterministic tests, reproduces the typing-based shooting minigame, and documents compromises (one try/catch, a few while loops instead of tail-call optimization). Gameplay works and is substantially shorter and more testable than the original.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 5:21What is functional programming
3. 8:53Functional C# compromises
4. 11:21Oregon Trail history
5. 17:17Original gameplay and code
6. 23:00Functional input handling
7. 33:14Inventory with immutability
8. 41:18Game state recursion
9. 44:48Shooting minigame logic
10. 47:33Trail random events
11. 51:44Legacy features and future
12. 54:33Book and resources
13. 59:10Q&A

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