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Part 3/16 Rite of Passage

How many times will the following loop run? Write your answer as a number, like 5. If the loop is an infinite loop, type infinity.

1 for (var i:uint = 0; i = 7; i++) {

for reference, i=7 is always true as it’s an assignment and not a test so this would be infinite, yet typing infinity or any variation of it (string quotes, dot at the end capitalization, infinite, etc) does not seem to work. Am I missing something or is this a bug??

Hello Gregory,

I’ve gotten very into The Programmer RPG by a bit and liked it a lot, but I noticed a few of mistakes. In “Elite Training Zone” in “Concatenation” in “Part 2/9”, I saw that there was a space after the period in the second line of code in the parenthesis, but the display reads, “Sentence one. Sentence two.” instead of "Sentence one. Sentence two. ". In “Elite Training Zone” in “Concatenation” in “Part 5/9”, in the second line of text in the parenthesis, there is no period at the end, but the display for the third line of code reads, “Hello, my nameis Gregory Carlson.” instead of “Hello, my nameis Gregory Carlson”, and the display for the fourth line of code reads, “Hello, my name is Gregory Carlson.” instead of “Hello, my name is Gregory Carlson”. In the “Elite Training Zone” in “Review” in “Part 4/6”, stringTwo has two spaces rather than one. In “Logic Basics” in “Logic ‘AND’” in “Part 4/10”, the final sentence is grammatically incorrect; “Look at the statement, and determine if it’s value by typing true or false.” is written rather than “Look at the statement, and determine it’s value by typing true or false.”. In “Logic Basics” in “Rite of Passage” in “Part 17/18”, you forgot to add semicolons to the ends of your lines of code. In “Conditional Junction” in “Else” in “Part 2/11”, the third sentence reads, “They way this code works is that if the condition in parenthesis is true, then the first block of code in brackets will be executed.” rather than “The way this code works is that if the condition in parenthesis is true, then the first block of code in brackets will be executed.”.I love your game, and highly approve of it. I am not a programmer yet, so this is helpful. Keep up the good work.

Sincerely, Ezra0321

Hey, just finished basic training in The Programmer RPG and I’m loving this!

But I noticed that the last update was from 2 1/2 years ago, so I decided to ask – Are you still intending to update the game? No hurry, rushed updates tend to suck lol. Just thought I’d drop a bug in your ear about it, see if anything bites.

Regardless, thanks for the awesome game! I’m definitely going to finish this one (as much as possible, that is lol)

I am excited to announce I will program the final update to The Programmer RPG, live on www.twitch.tv/themathbuilding, explaining the code as I go.

Sunday, January 1st starting at 2PM EST

Stop on by and learn how to code a little bit! I will answer questions in chat and even show you how to upload your own file to Kongregate! Hope to see you there! – Gregory

Programmer RPG

Concatenation 4/9

9 private var stringFour:String = "Sentence one. ";
10 private var stringFive:String = “Sentence two.”;
11 private var stringSix:String = stringFour + stringTwo;

Did you mean line 11 to read:
11 private var stringSix:String = stringFour + stringFive;
?

Also, there’s a game version comment in the beginning training that references version 1.2. Sorry, I’ll go back later maybe and find it.

Hey ive tried doing the EC on your Math.random 7/7 but the solution is not on your website anymore so I cant check if I’ve got it right or not. Id very much appreciate it if you could help me out and let me know what it should be. The question is – Create a function named randomNumberBetween. It should take two uint inputs, a and b. It should return a random number between and including (or excluding, it’s your function) a and b. The solution I have is – http://pastebin.com/5PMzPGWP – I also added a round so it will always give a whole number

Hi man, i think i’ve just spot a bug or maybe i’m just the dumbest man on earth, i’m blocked on a question which i think my answner is correct,“To pass this section, write a line of code that calls our function, and gives it an input of 18.” my answer is “trace(doublePlusOne(18));” keep taking me health …. I have 2 ragequits since the beginning of the game and it was become i wanted to test your answer bot …. i would be very frustated to have my first rage quit now XD

hey man i love the game thank you for making it. I was just wondering, are you going to update it anytime soon? I learned tons of info from it and loved your way of teaching. It kept me focused and concentrated and it was really helpful. Now that I have done everything up to this point, I am a little uncertain where to turn too so i can keep learning. So if you are planning another update soon that would be awesome! Otherwise could you point me in another direction where I can continue learning? Thank you again for making this amazing game though!

Thanks for this great game – lovely execution of step-by-step progress, great for sharing with people of all levels of experience w math or programming.

General comment: you should try speeding up interim steps, and doing less hand-holding, as the player moves to new regions. For instance: letting the player enter a few lines all at once. Or possibly doing this as bonus steps after the required ‘unlock’ steps. I imagine the new environment you’re working on does lots of these nice to have things :)

Bugs in the Loops rite of passage:

8/16 "until i0 (maybe better to rewrite this program in a way that’s harder to make off-by-one errors :)
14/16 aaaand decrement! plus, again, quit the loop before the index reaches 0