Program files for project of the Week

Joe Fishback

The "Projects of the Week" are great and· I have enjoyed them, keep it up. One thing I would like to see is on long Programs like this week's "Maze Navigation" and· the PING 'Go to closest Object" that the program be listed as a·file that could be downloaded. Copying and Pasting sometimes gives me funny results.··Short program files are OK to retype,·but long ones are hard for me to retype with no errors. When I am trying to learn how a program works, typing errors can drive you up the walls. Thanks for all your efforts.

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Humanoido

I agree - the Project of the Week is spectacular. The people doing these projects have done a remarkable job and made great accomplishments. You can download these projects, save the page with a browser, and bring up the project to copy over the code if it appears as text and not a file for download. I always save the link too, as there are usually great comments and updates.

What happens with copy and paste? You should not need to do any typing. You may need to click on the stamp icon in the editor, just once, and the color will appear and then it's ready.

I ask this question because there is a plan to put a lot of code into an online magazine and present it for code copy, not download. I have tried code copy many times from a stamp magazine with no problems. I can only think if they updated the magazine format and the code was affected, then this could give some unusual results. I cannot imagine retyping programs. That was something they did in the 1970s when the magazines had no electronic versions.

humanoido

Post Edited (humanoido) : 4/11/2009 1:45:50 PM GMT

SRLM

Joe said...
Short program files are OK to retype, but long ones are hard for me to retype with no errors. When I am trying to learn how a program works, typing errors can drive you up the walls.

Hmmm. That's exactly the opposite philosophy that I take. I like typing out long programs when I'm learning. That way (assuming the author was an experience programmer) I get all the little nuances and tricks from the author, and learn the syntax of the commands. It's how I learned Java: get the textbook, and type away. The downside of course is that it takes a while.