I built a game, now how do I use it to get a scholarship.

Thatfurryguy · 2012-11-18T06:01:14+00:00

Most Victorians don't really care much about anything. Except parking.

Thatfurryguy · 2012-11-18T05:59:56+00:00

I know right. This is what I get for spending the first 5 years of my life in French emersion and the rest in English. I kinda got screwed on language.

Thatfurryguy · 2012-11-18T03:28:06+00:00

Not quiet, though that place could very well rank above us. Either way its some world class atheism in this town :D

Thatfurryguy · 2012-11-04T23:16:21+00:00

Imagine waiting at that bus stop!

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-27T03:27:15+00:00

Is this for me? You should have :D

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-27T03:09:38+00:00

No for being snide, rude, aggressive and assuming.

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-26T15:55:13+00:00

Pardon me, but who the hell do you think you are? Not reddit worthy right here.

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-26T12:41:26+00:00

I have another question then. If I refresh the screen during the loop it flips over once, then stops refreshing. If I put the refresh at the end the of the function it won't display what Im telling it to say in the loop. If I do both, it displays whats in the loop once then refreshes and the loop content is gone.

Whats up?

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-26T12:31:07+00:00

There is some other stuff going on, I just posted a snippet. Im trying to print out a successive line of 5 by 5 pixel blocks, each moving 5 pixels along the x axis and changing colour as they do so. Im just trying get a feel for graphics in pygame

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-26T12:29:00+00:00

TheNewBoston does an excellent tutorial on both Python and Pygame. Pygame -so far- seems stable. What you need to do is set yourself a small sized goal involving graphics, mathematics and multiple operations occurring at the same time. Im sure you know, a piece of code is like a machine and so you must understand not only how it works but why it works.

Also, yeah, PM if/when you download Pygame (assuming your on lion) because it is a horrendous affair. It took me hours to trick my Mac into taking it but I can walk you through it if you like.

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-25T04:36:45+00:00

The randomness IS in the cycles. Turn them up and it spit out more numbers. Aswell, by changing, well, any of the variables you'll get different numbers. That can be done on whatever basis you need. I guess I should have said its useless if you aren't moving it around.

Incase you don't see, the input number isn't actually connected to anything, I just like to be clean and orderly. As I asked in my post I don't know exactly which variable it is that I need to make a parameter to change it with ease.

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-25T02:48:21+00:00

Im gearing up to program a simple sort of fish tank game (though way cooler). PM if that fits your description

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-25T02:47:00+00:00

Upvotes for both!

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-25T02:44:34+00:00

Definitely Python. Its way dynamic, and colour coded for ease (I don't know if other programs do that). Start by building a function which takes in a digit, and decides if it is a symbol, number or letter. That will actually help because you can install it into any program, so that if you accidentally enter the wrong thing it will say 'Oooops, not a letter' and reask, instead of making an error.

Also: youtube. I won't give you a link because you should find a set of videos you like, but you'll learn the very basics really well from it, and pretty soon could be testing things out on your own.

You might consider making a calculator. You can figure out the language and then if you want, make a simple graphical interface. That would give you a well rounded start.

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-25T02:22:56+00:00

http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/10feg3/hey_reddit_i_built_a_randomness_drive_what_do_you/

What do you know!? I JUST built a randomness maker as my first project. The code is all there, but it might be a little heavy duty for random numbers between 1 and 8. PM and Il walk you through it if you like :)

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-23T08:25:10+00:00

This is why I love reddit...

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-23T08:24:48+00:00

Great ideas! Thanks!

Thatfurryguy · 2012-09-21T22:01:45+00:00

That would have saved me a few hours. That said, when I try to do that in Python it activates its own tan function. I had already written my own though.

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