I found this legendary piece of code on scratch

'math eqation' too

And it can't handle 1+7

Gonna hijack this comment to say that he's confused regarding the attention his profile is getting.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/172557877

He must have had too much split in his throat when he named it.

/r/mechanicalkeyboards starts at a young age.

/r/bandnames

Made me chuckle.

def claculate(it):

They still have a much clearer idea of what programmers do than most people.

I used to think like that until I figured out you'd waste your entire life making a single call of duty game

Little does he know Google, Facebook and open source developers in general type like 90% of my code for me.

In 5th grade I decide to try and write a math quiz for the second graders on a PET in BASIC.

I also didn't know how to use variables well and hard coded 20 different addition problems. The whole time it felt so wrong to me but I didn't know what else to do.

That was my first "code smell".

The ascii animated pig face that said "good job" if they got it correct was pretty sweet though.

I mean this is a great acceleration method for more complex mathematical equations. Some programmers do 'do' this all day.

I thought that that was what game devs did for every pixel once.

This was published about 21 hours ago, IIRC. Probably by a teenager (or even pre-teenager) school child.

You mean it's not?

You can't blame him/her. This is how they teach arithmetic to kids. By example. I'm surprised they didn't create some "apple" object to hold the number 1, and then use that as "apple + apple + apple +...".

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This is how I thought games were made when I was really young. I tried coming up with other ways to do it but failed, haha.

I wasn't a smart kid.

I tried to make the same. With graphics. In HTML. The 4 movement arrows on the web page were links to the corresponding page. I got bored of it very, very quickly.
As I remember, it was a toss-up between using powerpoint and HTML.

I made a tic-tac-toe "AI" which all it was was a massive nested if blocks for every condition, programmed in visual basic. It was glorious. I'm still proud.

I need to see this.

Reminds me of that time I tried to make an operating system in PowerPoint.

I made a command line Naughts & Crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe) game in a computing class. I hardcoded every board-state that was a win, rather than get it to recognise 3 characters in a row in any position.

My programming career was short lived.

Same. I distinctly remember thinking about it while playing GTA IV. I also distinctly remember that it was the Diamonds In The Rough mission and I was driving along the road where Maisonette 9 was located but there my memory may be deceiving me.

I don't think I was seriously pondering that question at the time because by then I did know some coding (C-BOT from Colobot, pluggo pluggo ma bois) but more importantly i knew some glitches that would never have happened if people were drawing things themselves, like clipping outside the Seattle cirtuit in Gran Turismo 3. Huge shame it was fixed in GT4

You need to post this.

I used to make hidden object games in power point using the hyper link feature to take players to other premade slides with a couple of adjustments that depended on what item the player pressed

When I was a kid, I thought this was how they made videogames, like Spyro. Like, someone had to do every possible movement to render the frame first or something.

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I did this in MS PowerPoint

Congratulations, you made a state machine!

I used to send batch files that repeatedly echoed out "You've been hacked!" telling them it was my new game. They probably all hated me tbf.

I wrote a tic-tac-toe AI with graphics that had every possible board state hard coded, with the correct next move for that state.

Oh no... I did that too a while ago. I copy pasted the level 500 times and pasted all possible character locations into it, it was something like a 5,000 line code.

That's relatively impressive starting out, IMO. My first "game" was elaborate pages that "looked" like your slowly having into a computer system. I figured out (randomly) that you could put [PAUSE] (at least something like that) on its own line and then just type a filename you made and everything to the pause would print and wait for enter. Made for great password prompts. Although not a real game, I made a bunch. After that it was"cheat" programs I made for other students in their TI-83 so they could to in their problem and it would show all the steps to copy (I was banned from using my own calculator on tests, but it's not like I didn't know it all since I wrote the code). Then finally started making menu games. Eventually sold one at $ 0.25 USD a pop, made $ 0.75 total. Felt good.

My proudest moment before being taught programming was writing a graphical pong. My only reference was the manual for the calculator. When wiring games I'd carry a notebook page that mapped the A-Z variables (only ones TI-BASIC could use) to their meaning. Man those days were fun. I'd spend every class programming.

Yeah I thought something like this too, that's why FPS games blew my mind, I had no idea how the developers could draw every single frame at every angle, plus all the animations! Young minds are cute.

I did this in LUA in computercraft in minecraft for a fighting game. Admittedly there's only like 6 positions total per character. It actually worked too...

I made a few BAT "games". My favorite was Skype Russian roulette. You got in a Skype call and every time you pressed enter it would have a small chance to close "Skype.exe".

I remember when I was starting my computer science course, one of the tasks we got early on was to make a revision program, whereby the user would be presented with three random definitions from a set of definitions, and would then need to write in the correct keyword. Let's just say that my friends ended up working together, and their code was literally all if statements and print() (Python 3.5). Their code would look something like this

print("first definition, second definition, third definition") 

Answer1=input() If answer1=="keyword" : Print("correct") Else: Print("wrong") Print("fourth definition, fifth definition, sixth definition")

And so on.

I remember my first text-based RPG that I made after five days of learning C++ in summer camp when I was 12. There was a fancy UI with a text box, four buttons containing actions that could be performed, a health bar and an inventory menu. The entire game was one function containing four if statements, one for each button. Each one contained dozens of levels of nested if statements.

I'd assume you want more data for testing or something and just create 10000 garbage entries.

I'd start looking for a way to script the writing of Scratch. I assume the code is actually just text.

How to give me a panic attack 101.

INSERT INTO TableName (col1, col2)

SELECT 'junkdata', GetDate()

GO 10000

Reminds me of this gem:

Donnie inserted ten year's worth of dates into the Date Table and, after filing his report, the primary support guy thanked him and mentioned "yeah, this happened last year; we probably should have put more than a year's worth in there."

And next week ask them to add support for spaces between operands

Actually he got to 3+2 and then gave up

Oh it's much much worse than that. You can see that they include both 1+2 and 2+1. I assume this means they deal with every pair of numbers in that range, meaning it's probably 400,000,040,000,000 conditionals long.

When you get paid per line....

else say answer

It actually isn't technically limited to +/-10,000,000. If the user inputs "random number" it will output a random number in that range. Else it'll check for an equation and spit out an answer.

I know this is probably something to do with permutations/combinations but im just curious as to how you got the extra 1?

a switch would be WAY more efficient smh

Still O(n)

Different subject, but I had a teacher do the same.

I wanted to know how one could calculate, without directly measuring, atomic weight.

"You can't"

Ugh.

To be fair, would you want to have to help anyone split strings in VB?

This is why you use stack exchange.

I'm JK it's perfectly fine to go to a teacher for advice.

Well the calculator's buttons do only go up to six.

That wasn't in the requirements, boss. I have the spec right here and it doesn't say we have to handle 1+7. I tried to bring it up in the design review but nobody wanted to discuss it. You clearly told me to implement exactly what your spec said, so I did.

That reminds me of that game on Steam that uses 0 loops and arrays, instead relying on the structure of the main class to act as a loop. It was really impressive to see thousands of lines reserved solely for variable initialization.

The first time I tried making a game in C++, I didn't fully understand allocating memory on the heap and as a result didn't delete stuff. Cue my game leaking objects (including a bunch of SDL_Surface structs) 60 times a second.

I teach scratch to kids and some of their programs just get insanely complex. The amount of time children have to devote to a pet project is actually crazy. It's always really exciting when a kid comes to me with an idea of their own because I know they will devote hours and hours to programming now that they are chasing a goal. My goal is just to get as many kids as possible to have their own idea they are passionate about as fast as possible.

Sometimes one will come with a question on their project and I'll open it up and go "oh boy" when it's 20 sprites, 15 backgrounds and just pages and pages of orange (or god forbid, brown (messages/events)).

Griffpatch is a god on there.

You allowed inputs above 7. That's a violation of the design spec, your code is clearly worthless.

This is so much more confusing than actual common languages like Java and C++ wtf

You misspelt claculator.

I didn't understand all of that, but I see it looks exactly like an appmaker for Android I used - if this is for computer/web, would you mind telling me what the software is that lets you code in blocks like this?

Actually called "Awsome OS"

Oh that's precious :D

Good on him for keeping at it. Might be a good programmer one day.

To be fair that's better than anything I could do in scratch.

Can't wait til the terminal commands are added in 6.0!

Needs a better volume slider.

"You can only search Minecraft."

Seems fine to me.

I'm on mobile. Did this person build an ENTIRE FUCKING OPERATING SYSTEM in scratch?!

More likely it's just something that looks and feels like a window manager, right?

That could be a product of his boss. A lot of managers will evaluate programmers based on number of lines written because they just don't know how else to evaluate them.

yes

I mean, if it an older person, this is just another insult.

Before people follow this link and leave snarky comments, I'd just like to remind everyone that scratch is meant for children. There is probably an 8 year old on the other end who is very proud of the first software program they've ever made. Please be nice.

Let's send loves and favorites to the project! Will make the kids day :)

Liked + favorited :D

He's so happy that his project was featured here :D https://i.imgur.com/AAItPD5.png

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Ay he checks the subreddit good on him

PHP was discovered a while ago.

To those that haven't heard about the CPU lookup table bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

Yeah, but that would use 3 separate inputs:

1. First value; "2"

2. Operation; "+"

3. Second value; "3"

and this calculator uses one input like "2+3," which Scratch can't parse without a bit of extra work.

I laughed because I understood because I learned because I did

Markup fixed for my own sanity's sake:

int arr[10];
for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)  
{  
if (i == 8)  
    a[8] = i;  
if (i == 7)
     a[7] = i;
...
...

My first exposure to programming as a kid was my cousin's Commodore 64. It had special extended characters/icons that were easy to type, and I thought that you could assign a score by typing the value in the right part of the screen, then overlaying characters to make the shape of an enemy. You know, shoot the enemy, reveal the score, it gets added to your game score.

It wasn't so different from the Scratch concept of dragging elements to make a composite object. In that sense, they are onto something.

So I spent several hours having a great deal of fun laying out a game screen, then we went home.

Later I received money as a reward for something I did, and I spent a good deal of time wracking my brain between getting a C=>64 and a TRS-80. I went with the Radio Shack machine, which was poorer for games, but there was something in it that appealed more to me, that escapes me now. Programming wasn't like I thought it was, but I caught the bug!

I still have that old machine tucked away in my closet.

On scratch good Pong like games and bad Pong like games were decided on if they had accurate angles.

I felt so smart when I figured out an equation that let me have a ball bounce off a line of any angle and have it still be accurate.

well, considering computers are just trillions of boolean gates, he's...not wrong...

That takes dedication.

"""pro"""

Do you Python?

Nobody knows. That's why he left it blank.

ooh you got a reply from the claculator author :3

wtf is 7?

Actually it wouldn't be too hard to write a shunting yard evaluator compared to this and definitely easier to write a postfix evaluator like here in my language: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/171581022/

You can absolutely write input to variables and manipulate them in scratch.

He carries on until 3+2

Scratch has been around since the early 2000s, and is meant as a learning tool for children

damn straight, the only REAL programming language for kids is Logo, folllowed by Pascal

Are you missing the /s tag?

I found it surprisingly useful for learning basic coding concepts. Then again I was like 11 when I used it. But that's the point!

It is funny because the code is so badly and inefficiently written

If he continued hard-coding a calculator like this, he would have to hand-write the answer to every single possible expression. Programming languages, including this one, have the ability to automatically perform math operations between numbers you input, which would be a much better way of doing this.

See my comment here showing what a properly done calculator might look like