Scratch

So I have a list of 2000 words of various lengths...

If the player chooses to play with a 5 letter word, I'd like to delete the rest of the words that do not match the 5 letter length criteria.

Hi there. I have a scratch program that plays hangman, how would I implement your block into my file?  Is there anyway you could show the entire result?  (I don't know how to post my code on here, but if I figure it out, Ill do it).

Here is a link to the flow chart of how it should work..
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/sp12/hw/evil-hangman-flowchart.pdf

this is basically what pdubu is trying to create. 

Im still trying to send you my code, but apparently I cant private message you 

How do you upload it? I would be more than glad to send you my version so that you would not need to do the actual hangman code, but simply show how to add in your tweaks.  Perhaps through email?

It's uploaded now!  You can find the script by downloading this project.   

Here's a link to the BYOB file for my game.  This is not my game, but my code is very similar. 
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/sp12/hw/hw2-sol.ypr

I don't understand how I could implement your code into mine.. I get errors, the game wont even tell me if the word I chose was right or wrong (although I didnt exactly use your code, I used one similar to yours). Could you give any insight to how you I could edit my code to implement yours?

Note just in case you dont know what byob is, it's basically scratch but with a bit more options.  It has all of the same features as scratch, the blocks even look the same! So if you need to download byob, here's the site too..

http://snap.berkeley.edu/

were you able to download the code?

And yeah im not making too much sense right now, just got out of a testing haha

I wrote code that is basically the same thing as what I provided in the first link. Mine is a bit different, but they both work the same way, so any alterations to that one, id understand and be able to make to my own version.

as I said before, I'm having trouble implementing your algorithm into the hangman game.  I think my lists arent matching up or something.  If you manage to do it, can you explain how?

I dont know how to upload from byob. That's why I sent you the generic version of hangman (which is basically what I have).  Can you upload to this site from byob?

Oh man, I'd appreciate it if you could help before midnight tonight haha.

As I said before, the hard part is done, now I just need to know how to implement the algorithm into the code.

steaksauceyum wrote:

Oh man, I'd appreciate it if you could help before midnight tonight haha.

As I said before, the hard part is done, now I just need to know how to implement the algorithm into the code.

I'm sorry, I won't be able to get to it tonight.   

You're getting conflicts because there are some variables/lists with the same name between the scripts.  Here's what I would recommend:

1.  Make a list called "usable words".
2.  Take the first block (set [c1  v] to (1) ) and the repeat loop right after it.  Put it into its own block.  Change all the references to "words" to "usable words".
3.  After the user selects the length, copy all the words from "words" to "usable words" (the 3rd repeat loop in my script contains code to do something similar--a loop and two blocks).  Then run the new block, leaving "usable words" with only words of that length.
4.  Put the rest of my script into another block.  Again, change all "words" references to "usable words".  The script variable "letter" should be set to (answer).  "Stop script" should be changed to "stop block" (appears twice).  Remove the "repeat until < (length of (letter) ) = (1) >" loop and its contents. 
5.  Run this block after the user guesses a letter successfully.  It should change the answer if possible.


I tried to address as much as I could in there; sorry if it was confusing.  I can't do any more tonight.      Remember to create script variables for the variables in my script.

Last edited by Greenatic (2012-02-24 21:46:55)

Greenatic wrote:

pdubu wrote:

I already have a list of words. So if my list were to contain 5 words:
apple
ant
bear
cheese
milk

And the first guess was "a", then apple, ant, and bear would be eliminated due to those three containing the letter "a" ... then depending on which letter is chosen first, either milk or cheese will be selected as the finalized secret word.

Does anybody have any idea how to approach this?

Give me a sec...

OK, I got it.

I'm assuming the letter is stored in a variable named "letter" and the possible words for use are in a list named "words".  Create three additional variables:  "c1", "c2", and "bool".

set [c1  v] to (1)
repeat (length of [words  v])
set [c2  v] to (1)
set [bool  v] to (0)
repeat (length of (item (c1) of [words  v]))
if < <(bool) = (0)> and <(letter (c2) of (item (c1) of [words  v])) = (letter)> >
delete (c1) of [words  v]
set [bool  v] to (1)
end
change [c2  v] by (1)
end 
if <(bool) = (0)>
change [c1  v] by (1)
end
end

The new word can then be accessed by:

(item (pick random (1) to (length of [words  v])) of [words  v])

Let me know if you have any problems.

Scratchblocks didn't create that error. It was a syntax error you made. I fixed it for you.

Greenatic wrote:

steaksauceyum wrote:

Oh man, I'd appreciate it if you could help before midnight tonight haha.

As I said before, the hard part is done, now I just need to know how to implement the algorithm into the code.

I'm sorry, I won't be able to get to it tonight.   

You're getting conflicts because there are some variables/lists with the same name between the scripts.  Here's what I would recommend:

1.  Make a list called "usable words".
2.  Take the first block (set [c1  v] to (1) ) and the repeat loop right after it.  Put it into its own block.  Change all the references to "words" to "usable words".
3.  After the user selects the length, copy all the words from "words" to "usable words" (the 3rd repeat loop in my script contains code to do something similar--a loop and two blocks).  Then run the new block, leaving "usable words" with only words of that length.
4.  Put the rest of my script into another block.  Again, change all "words" references to "usable words".  The script variable "letter" should be set to (answer).  "Stop script" should be changed to "stop block" (appears twice).  Remove the "repeat until < (length of (letter) ) = (1) >" loop and its contents. 
5.  Run this block after the user guesses a letter successfully.  It should change the answer if possible.


I tried to address as much as I could in there; sorry if it was confusing.  I can't do any more tonight.      Remember to create script variables for the variables in my script.

This is a bit confusing haha.  I'll give it a go now.  If you could produce code using the one I sent you with the one you created, that would be appreciated too! I just want to see how to mix them together.  Text is harder to visualize haha