Mah First Program Evar!

[Mattlap]

So yeah, this is for a grade nine computer tech project. Again, first project ever, so any CONSTRUCTIVE criticism would be greatly appreciated XD.
What this is, is just a simple quiz (the assignment was to make a program that asked 10 questions).

-Matt

[Raknarg]

Turing:

if how = "good" then    put "Well that's always nice." elsif how = "Good" then    put "Well that's always nice." elsif how = "bad"

you can add an "or" instead

Turing:

if how = "good" or how = "Good" then         put "Well that's always nice."

This is confusing:

Turing:

if age = age if movie = movie

Pretty redundant, it'll always equal itself
Also, I would add white spaces inbetween sections of code, it's easier on the eyes that way.
Other than that, not too bad.

[mirhagk]

Not bad at all for your first program, I can tell from your programming style that your gonna be good at this. Just wanted to point out a few tips:

First of all, checking age=age, well that will always be the case, so instead of an elsif, just use else

Second, Turing let's you convert a string to all upper or lower case letters (just wrap the string with upper() or lower() like so:

Turing:

if upper("Hello")="hello"  put "hi" endif

[Raknarg]

Actually, that's a different function, that would ouput 5, not HELLO.
the right syntax:

Turing:

if Str.Upper (word) = "YES" then ...

almost the same

[mirhagk]

lol sorry, been a long time since I worked with turing, so I just opened up a turing window and said the first thing that colored back

[Mattlap]

Thanks . The only reason I put the "if age = age" and "if movie = movie" is because I didn't know what do do there because there could be a multitude of responses that aren't Marven (if that makes sense). My friend told me to do the "Marven" as answers business because he thought it would be funny but i didn't know what to do if the response wasn't "marven". Like at the age part, if they answered 14 instead of Marven, it would just restart the program and i didn't know what else to do. If you have a solusion to that problem I'd love it

EDIT: This is all at Raknarg By the way

EDIT 2: I'm not sure I follow, Raknarg, this my first time using Turing and I kind of need some explanations lol

[mirhagk]

just use else instead of elsif, and then continue with your outputting their age and stuff, the only line that changes is

Turing:

if age=age

into

Turing:

else

[Mattlap]

So this is what I did :

Turing:

put "First question: 'How old are you?'" %Fourth Question         get age         if age = "Marven"                 then             put "STOP SAYING THAT!!!!"         else %This used to be elsif age = age             put "Well, ", age, " isn't very old compared to me."             randint (mine, 1, 123455)

But if I put in Marven for the age variable it just starts the program over. not sure what to do.

[Raknarg]

Yes, that would be because of the setup.

if age = Marven then
stuff
else
rest of the program
end if

That's essentially how yours is set up. What you need to have is a nested if instead have the end if way before.

if age = Marven then
stuff
else
stuff
end if
rest of the program

Get it?

[Mattlap]

I understand now. Thank you so much for helping me with this! You have my gratefulness and if I had 25 posts you'd also have +1 karma lol. Thanks again .

-Matt

EDIT: One last question (unless you feel as though you've wasted enough time with me already lol), how would I make it so that at the age part, when you type in Marven it just says "stop saying that" and not that other stuff?

[Raknarg]

Don't worry about wastimg my time, I do this for fun

Oh, so you DO want it to end when the program says "Stop saying that!"?

[Mattlap]

I want it to skip the
" put "How old am I? Well, let me think."
delay (1200)
put "It's been a while since I thought about this."
delay (1000)
put "I'm, hmmm."
delay (500)
put "I've got it!", "I'm ", mine, " human years old."

part but i don't know how lol. If you could help me out with that it would be great

I'm going to be back in like an hour so no hurry to respond lol

[Raknarg]

You move the end if.

Turing:

if age = "Marven" then      put "STOP SAYING THAT!!!!" elsif age = age then      put "Well, ", age, " isn't very old compared to me."      randint (mine, 1, 123455)      put "How old am I? Well, let me think."      delay (1200)      put "It's been a while since I thought about this."      delay (1000)      put "I'm, hmmm."      delay (500)      put "I've got it!", "I'm ", mine, " human years old."      colour (45)      colourback (59) end if

See, what the issue is for the age and movie question is that if you say the answer is marven, it'll skip all the code that would normally happened. Like it only reached those if statements when you dont input marven. The solution is as I said; Take the end ifs you had at the end and move them back to their original ifs. Dont use nested ifs unless you mean to.
When I say nested ifs, I mean this:

Turing:

%age question if age = marven then      stuff else      stuff      %movie question      if movie = marven then           stuff      else           stuff           %Royal Wedding question

You should take them out of those if statements and have them separate.
Btw, as useless and stupid as the Royal Wedding was, 2 billion people at least still watched it ;P

[Mattlap]

Raknarg @ Fri Apr 29, 2011 8:24 pm wrote:

Btw, as useless and stupid as the Royal Wedding was, 2 billion people at least still watched it ;P

I'm only 14 so I belong to the approx. 2/3 of the world's population that doesn't watch it XD


Also thanks so much (again lol)! I just did what you said and (no surprise you genius, you) it worked! . Just for that you can have 1/11 of my bits lol. Thanks again for spending your time to help out a very ignorant beginner


-Matt

[Raknarg]

No probs Come back if you have other questions.