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        <title><![CDATA[Melissa Katie Brennan : Activity]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Activity for Melissa Katie Brennan, hosted on RedGloo.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Programming Final Project]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 20:09:45 GMT</pubDate>
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		<dc:subject><![CDATA[Mastermind]]></dc:subject>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>At first I was going to attempt the Chatbot program, as I had absolutely no clue how to do the Mastermind version. After a few days of thinking, the Mastermind idea suddenly became much, much clearer than the Chatbot, and so I eventually decided to do the Mastermind one.</p><p>The initial idea was to use an array to store the code sequence, but was quickly changed to vectors as they were easier to extract and compare information from.</p><p>When the main body of the code had been finished, dynamic validation was started, and instantly ran into a problem. Instead of taking the first value of the user-created vector and checking it against the computer-generated vector, it instead did it the other way around, giving out sixteen lines of guidance instead of four. This was eventually resolved.</p><p>Another error was that if, in the computer-generated code, there was a repeat element generated by a random number generator, the program would count it twice. For example, if the code generated was v, c, y, c and the code the user inputted was h, c, t, k the program would indicate two correct elements in the incorrect place. This was resolved by changing the number generator from generating a number which was associated with an element, and instead associated it with a vector.</p><p>I learned a number of things while doing this program, most specifically how to use vectors in more detail and to not get so frustrated when using code which I think should work, and doesn&#39;t. </p>]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Programming practical 2]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:37:37 GMT</pubDate>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[Programming]]></dc:subject>
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            <description><![CDATA[<p>Learned how to use &quot;if...else&quot; statements in C with a bit of help, got part 2B working (although it is the same four questions asked rather than using random numbers to create four different ones each time).</p><p>Part 2A was pretty easy, it was mainly a rejig of the exercise in the tutorial yesterday.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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