Grade 10 Student Needs Help!!!

[BangBangMario]

so what am i to take out and where should i add the "i" in and by the way what does the "i" even mean??

[Raknarg]

first off I screwed up, it should be:

for decreasing i : 5 .. 1

Second, it doesn't matter what you call it. It can be i, or q, or counter, or flibbertigibbet. You wanted a way to make a for loop that decreased, I showed you how to make one. Try to apply what I showed you to your code.

It's very close. Everything you're doing is right, the syntax is just a little off.

[Raknarg]

first off I screwed up, it should be:

for decreasing i : 5 .. 1

Second, it doesn't matter what you call it. It can be i, or q, or counter, or flibbertigibbet. You wanted a way to make a for loop that decreased, I showed you how to make one. Try to apply what I showed you to your code.

It's very close. Everything you're doing is right, the syntax is just a little off.

[BangBangMario]

background
setscreen ("offscreenonly")
for decreasing y : 350 .. 250 by 30
drawfilloval (325, y, 25, 25, 4)
View.Update
delay (25)
end for



this is working now but i cant figure out how to get rid of the trail that is left behind

[BangBangMario]

never mind i got it, i forgot to put my background after the for decreasing y : 350 .. 250 by 2

[BangBangMario]

so now i have encountered another problem, after i got the circle to move down i need it to move to the left and down again about 6 more times and my teacher said to do it strictly with loops... could you help me out?

[Raknarg]

An easier way would be too keep track of the balls position. Consider this:

Turing:

var x, y : int := 200 for rep : 1 .. 4     for changex : 1 .. 50         x -= 1         Draw.FillOval(x, y, 10, 10, 12)         delay(5)         cls     end for     for changey : 1 .. 50         y -= 1         Draw.FillOval(x, y, 10, 10, 12)         delay(5)         cls     end for end for

Im doing the same code 4 times, but it changes the position of the ball, so even when it repeats the same code it will put the ball in a different spot

[BangBangMario]

I dont think she taught us that... on the assignment sheet she wrote that we have to use loops though

[Raknarg]

Realistically it shouldnt matter how you solve it. In fact if you solve a problem in a way she was not expecting, that should be bonus marks for you. It shows creative thinking or initiative.

This is using loops though.

[Tony]

Raknarg @ Sun Jan 05, 2014 7:09 pm wrote:

Realistically it shouldnt matter how you solve it. In fact if you solve a problem in a way she was not expecting, that should be bonus marks for you. It shows creative thinking or initiative.

Ideally, yes. It depends on the teacher and the assignment though. Sometimes the assignment is to practice a specific approach. Other times the teacher just has a checklist to mark with.

Raknarg @ Sun Jan 05, 2014 7:09 pm wrote:

This is using loops though.

Depending on the answers above, some might distinguish between loop and for-loop (yes, for-loop is just a special case of the generic loop). Sometimes students just have to recognize what the teacher's particular style of marking is.

[BangBangMario]

Tony is right, my teacher actually does use a checklists and give 1 to 5 marks for each thing i have... she just wants to see if i do it correctly and doest really care what it looks like... and also we only discussed basic loops nothing more complex soo i just want to see if it possible to do it with basic loops

[Raknarg]

Good point. I was spoiled with a good teacher

[BangBangMario]

GUys my assignment is due friday, im freaking out.... i need to learn how to make a clickable menu


alsoo the menu option have to lead us to one of 3 animations (the users choice)... out of those animations im having trouble with one
we need to have cars racing across the screen but each time they have to move at a different speed.... im sooo stuck here
i have the other 2 animations done and the teachers find them the best out of all so far but please help mee

[Raknarg]

You can either look up the Turing GUI module which has buttons, or I can teach you how to use the buttons that I made.

Are you familiar with the GUI module?

Or does someone know a tutorial on here for it?

[Nathan4102]

Theres lots of tutorials here for GUI stuff: http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=8808