IDEA: Redo a common program in a creative way

ygfperson · 08-12-2002, 11:09 PM

Take an old idea, and write it in a new way, like a recursive counting function

**doubleanti** · 08-15-2002, 11:51 AM

we should make a really really cool Hello World program!!!

ygfperson · 08-15-2002, 04:39 PM

can you go into detail?

**doubleanti** · 08-15-2002, 09:35 PM

we could have people judge it... [more qualified judges than in FD imho... perhaps the mods would judge...] in various categories... we should make it as portable with a standard [basic] gfx api, stuff like that...

**Fordy** · 08-16-2002, 01:40 AM

Hmm....I got an idea for this...

Point of clarity - When you say creatative, does that mean just about anything goes as long as the result is as per a common program's output?

ygfperson · 08-16-2002, 08:38 AM

prelude first suggested this idea, and she named someone's recursive counting program as an example.

ie:

Code:

int main () { int x; x = count(6); }
int count (int x) {
  if (x == 0) return 1;
  else { printf("%d",x); return x-1; }


}

hmm... that's not as elegant as i would like
but do you see my point? perhaps prelude can venture over and clarify things...

08-12-2002, 11:09 PM	#1
ygfperson Just because Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,502	IDEA: Redo a common program in a creative way Take an old idea, and write it in a new way, like a recursive counting function
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08-15-2002, 11:51 AM	#2
doubleanti Linguistic Engineer... Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: CA Posts: 2,425	we should make a really really cool Hello World program!!! __________________ hasafraggin shizigishin oppashigger...
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08-15-2002, 04:39 PM	#3
ygfperson Just because Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,502	can you go into detail?
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08-15-2002, 09:35 PM	#4
doubleanti Linguistic Engineer... Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: CA Posts: 2,425	we could have people judge it... [more qualified judges than in FD imho... perhaps the mods would judge...] in various categories... we should make it as portable with a standard [basic] gfx api, stuff like that... __________________ hasafraggin shizigishin oppashigger...
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08-16-2002, 01:40 AM	#5
Fordy &TH of undefined behavior Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 5,219	Hmm....I got an idea for this... Point of clarity - When you say creatative, does that mean just about anything goes as long as the result is as per a common program's output? __________________ "If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Board Rules
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08-16-2002, 08:38 AM	#6
ygfperson Just because Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,502	prelude first suggested this idea, and she named someone's recursive counting program as an example. ie: Code: int main () { int x; x = count(6); } int count (int x) { if (x == 0) return 1; else { printf("%d",x); return x-1; } } hmm... that's not as elegant as i would like but do you see my point? perhaps prelude can venture over and clarify things...
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