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t10dimensional
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 19:47
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i've tryed to leave a post on their post but it does not show up
or when i try the forum someone recomended its to old to leave one.

i thought your tower defence game was AWSOME

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Quirkyjim
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 20:12
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See this thread.

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t10dimensional
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 20:54
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Quote: ""If you want to apply for the team please submit a small program that displays an analogue clock with the current time.""

where do i submit the clock program

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Quirkyjim
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 21:48
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On the thread. Where else?

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BN2 Productions
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Just post it on the NOOBS Wanted thread. And it doesn't have to be an analogue clock anymore. You can do that, or any other program you can write quickly that displays your coding level, so that we can give you appropriate jobs. The clock is always nice though. Try to keep it simple though, less media if you can, so that we can cut and paste, but if you need media, just zip everything up and post it on the thread.

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"Time...LINE??? Time isn't made out of lines...it is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round!" -Caboose
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Libervurto
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@BN2
I think we should stick with the clock but i'll reword the challenge so people just submit the best clock they can do (analogue being the best). It's such a standardised program to make and tests a lot of areas so I think it's ideal. It's like the omlette of the coding world (chefs get new cooks to make them an omlette to test their skills)

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BN2 Productions
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Fair enough. Lets stick with the clock.

I didn't know that about chefs. Interesting.

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"Time...LINE??? Time isn't made out of lines...it is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round!" -Caboose
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t10dimensional
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Posted: 31st Mar 2009 02:55
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i found darknoobs ty

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t10dimensional
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Posted: 31st Mar 2009 02:59
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i like your cute little comment obese

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Irojo
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I figure I'd put it on this thread since it came up.

I'm sorry, but I find the clock a discouragingly difficult first challenge. When I started, I didn't know arrays, or sine and cosine. I do now, but I didn't before. I think the challenge should be toned down a bit, to something that can be done simply, but can also be done brilliantly. Perhaps attempting to revise a program to make it run faster, or anything which displays the person's skill level, without setting a standard.

Cheers,

Irojo


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That was the original idea behind the "or a program that demonstrates your skill". Obese is right, though, we need a single program that people can make, but I do agree with you Irojo.

Ideas anyone?

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"Time...LINE??? Time isn't made out of lines...it is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round!" -Caboose
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@Irojo
I'll take that on board and try and think of some way to make the challenge accessible to more noobs.
If you or BN2 or anyone else involved in DarkNoobs comes up with a good test then post it on the noobs wanted thread and we'll discuss it.
The challenge needs to accomodate a wide skill range, while maintaining strong base principles so that entries can be directly compared.

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Posted: 31st Mar 2009 16:17
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I know! A Paint program!

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Quote: "When I started, I didn't know arrays, or sine and cosine."


I agree, although you don't need to know sin or cosine to do a clock program because darkbasic has the command Newxvalue and newzvalue which do most of that for you.

Thanks,,,

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Caleb1994
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Posted: 31st Mar 2009 19:51
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I agree with QJ i'm not in darknoobs but i was reading random post and came across this lol

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t10dimensional
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just a random Q. hahahahaha

how do you get 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
to apear in a random order but not repeated.
like 10,1,6,2,9,3,8,7,4,5
or get 10 random numbers 1-100 but not repeated

(i did'nt want to clutter the forum board)

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Anyone reading this who wants to join the dark noobs team goto the noobs wanted thread

@razer
good question. To make sure you didn't pick the same number twice you'd need to store the numbers you choose, THIS is a good example of using an array
We have two options (that i can think of) for how we use our arrays; monitoring the source or monitoring the destination.

To monitor the source we'd make an array that stores whether each number has been chosen
dim num(100)
So num(0-100) would start off with a value of 0 (unpicked), we'd get a random number and check the array for the status of that number

The repeat loop forces DB to keep picking random numbers until it finds one that is unpicked. Now we have picked it this number is marked as picked (num(n)=1), therefore next time we use the picking loop we wont pick that number again.
Source monitoring is ideal for a game with more than one player where unique numbers are required.

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Posted: 31st Mar 2009 23:44
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sorry i have to double post i have a word limit

Destination monitoring stores the numbers as they are dealt and compares new numbers to this array, the benefit of this method is you don't have to monitor every single number, just the ones in play.

Instead of being 1 or 0 like the source monitoring, this array stores the actual numbers that are picked; the number of elements are how many numbers will be picked. I've set their initial values to -1 which will represent unpicked, so we can pick a 0.

I'm sure there's a much more elegant way of doing it but that should work. It picks 10 numbers and compares the pick to the previous picks (for x= 1 to num), you dont have to go any higher than the current num because those numbers havent been picked yet.

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I was writing that thinking to go with the destination monitoring but the source looks a lot easier, unless I've missed something.

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nice triple post lol, just to clarify wat he means by a word limit, hes typing on his PS3 if i understand correctly, that only allows you to type x words
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t10dimensional
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Posted: 1st Apr 2009 02:57
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thanks for the help, that will help me on the card game i'm working on

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@Smartguy
yeah this is next-gen technology y'know

@Razer
you're welcome

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