[VicPiMakers Projects] Projects Digest, Vol 4, Issue 15

Sat Oct 10 06:03:37 EDT 2020

Perhaps the following could be consulted.

⁣Deid 
VA7REI

On Oct 9, 2020, 8:24 PM, at 8:24 PM, projects-request at vicpimakers.ca wrote:
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>   1. Re: Jim's Challenge (re-posted from Slack) (George Bowden)
>   2. Re: Jim's Challenge (re-posted from Slack) (Michelle Wiboltt)
>   3. Jim's Challenge (re-posted from Slack) (Greg H)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 17:15:02 -0700
>From: George Bowden <gtbowdeng at gmail.com>
>To: "Talk about Raspberry Pi / embeded projects"
>	<projects at vicpimakers.ca>
>Subject: Re: [VicPiMakers Projects] Jim's Challenge (re-posted from
>	Slack)
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>Sexy code... I'm for that, for sure.   We try to make our code curvy by
>indenting, but logic gets in the way of romance for some of us.
>I did once work with a programmer who indented randomly,  just to make
>it
>look like the rest of our code.
> He could have done curves, for sure.
>Your request that code be in prose is valid. Pseudo code is that.
>Inclusion of massive commenting,
>and even very wordy languages like Cobol were popular once.  We are
>still
>searching for the holy grail of self documenting coding
>languages, because keeping comments and code in sync is nor for the
>lazy
>like me.
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>But wait till you see my solutions in FORTH.  They are stacked!!
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>gtbowdeng at gmail.com
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>Message: 2
>Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 01:17:40 +0000
>From: Michelle Wiboltt <michellewiboltt at outlook.com>
>To: Talk about Raspberry Pi / embeded projects
>	<projects at vicpimakers.ca>
>Subject: Re: [VicPiMakers Projects] Jim's Challenge (re-posted from
>	Slack)
>Message-ID: <FBCE6730-03BD-45C1-B17C-775ADF6A02EC at outlook.com>
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>Fun?
>
>K, so rather than indent why not start with curvy?like an ?s?? or sum
>such thing? or, how ?bout the code (letters/words) be curvy, like a
>wave? Or how ?bout feelings (warm fuzzy good ones) starting the code
>like?yummy, code/code/code? Or, say an image/emoji of yummy?
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>And
>
>Keeping in mind, None of it can be random. Leaving our everything to
>chance? I don?t like those odds because if you fail to plan? . See?
>Yeah. K.
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>So, CODERS, here?s my ask, Can YOU find Your sexy warm fuzzy ? love
>language -  in Your head AND THEN, find a way to translate those yummy
>good feelings into code, in a manner that matches YOUR
>view/feel/intent/fuzzy good really yummy stuff that u code about.
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>Simply, when you look at code?I?m assuming that You do see/feel/yum?
>because well, I don?t know?You tell me, right code, see? Purpose,
>maybe? Curious and interesting, pretty for sure? Scary, we don?t know,
>have we even tried?
>
>Possible? I don?t even know what an internet is so, again, you tell me?
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>m
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>From: Projects <projects-bounces at vicpimakers.ca> on behalf of George
>Bowden <gtbowdeng at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Talk about Raspberry Pi / embeded projects
><projects at vicpimakers.ca>
>Date: Friday, October 9, 2020 at 5:16 PM
>To: Talk about Raspberry Pi / embeded projects
><projects at vicpimakers.ca>
>Subject: Re: [VicPiMakers Projects] Jim's Challenge (re-posted from
>Slack)
>
>Sexy code... I'm for that, for sure.   We try to make our code curvy by
>indenting, but logic gets in the way of romance for some of us.
>I did once work with a programmer who indented randomly,  just to make
>it look like the rest of our code.
> He could have done curves, for sure.
>Your request that code be in prose is valid. Pseudo (REAL) code is
>that.  Inclusion of massive commenting (SEGUES),
>and even very wordy languages like Cobol were popular once.  We are
>still searching for the holy grail of self documenting coding
>languages, because keeping comments and code in sync is nor for the
>lazy like me.
>
>But wait till you see my solutions in FORTH.  They are stacked (like a
>crossword, see?)!!
>
>gtbowdeng at gmail.com<mailto:gtbowdeng at gmail.com>
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>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 20:23:39 -0700
>From: Greg H <greg.horie at gmail.com>
>To: projects at vicpimakers.ca
>Subject: [VicPiMakers Projects] Jim's Challenge (re-posted from Slack)
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>> Thanks for doing so. However, there should be *no posting* of
>solutions until
>> everyone has had a chance to complete their own.
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>Sorry Jim. There was no mention of *no posting* on the website -
>https://vicpimakers.ca/projects/programming-challenges/
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>How do you want to deal with this? Can we go with the honour system
>(i.e. don't look at my code until you've finished yours)?  :-)
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