I have couple of observations about the animal program. It is fairly short, about 70 lines. It was designed to be used with the caps lock on (or only upper case input). To clean up this version I will need to either…
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Hour of Code
The set of examples I went through was the tutorial for beginners. In it you write code by placing program blocks in the proper order. As you go through each example the different programming concepts are explained and you get to…
Animal Debugged
I finished debugging to the book. It was asking the “Is it a ” question, but displaying the question for the animal instead of the animal name. It took a while before I found the problem. In line 190, I…
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Games Past, Animal, Entry and Debugging
I finished typing Animal in today. When I was typing it in the only changes I made were to the text that was displayed. I changed it from all upper case to upper and lower case. The second half of…
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Games Past, Animal
I’ve decided to try to recover some of the games from my past. These games were written in basic and I’ll be using AppleSoft. David Ahl’s Basic Computer Games was published in several different editions. The first I saw was…
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Sunday
I had a little time to try out Lamb Chops today. It seems to take a long time to load up. but I like the graphics once it started. Today I’m running it on AppleWin using Authentic Machine Speed. The…
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Saturday
I work retail logistics and this week has been incredibly busy with a very strange schedule in preparation of and recovery from Black Friday. After this weekend, I’ll be back to a more normal schedule, which I’m looking forward to.…
Mapper, Debugging
I spent some time working on Mapper, starting on the debugging process. I figured the best way, was to actually use it. I chose to put the map from Eamon’s The Beginners Cave into the Mapper. I started finding problems…
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Mapper’s Map, Unstumped
Today, on my ride home from work, I was thinking about the different things I had tried with the map subroutine. The one thing that struck me was I was able to position a string of characters, ‘XXXXX X XXXXX’…
Mapper’s Map, Stumped
I worked on Mapper’s map subroutine again today. I spent several hours on it and am beginning to feel kind of stupid. The map file I have been using is just two named rooms with no directions. At this point…
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