From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1192c1137d7a2b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-30 10:00:09 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!nntp.flash.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Ted Dennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: I need advice please on this Ada95 hangman game Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 17:53:02 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <92l7dt$jeq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <3A4E1799.60B0D126@hiwaay.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.48.27.130 X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Dec 30 17:53:02 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001207 X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x54.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3475 Date: 2000-12-30T17:53:02+00:00 List-Id: In article <3A4E1799.60B0D126@hiwaay.net>, Bruce or Tracy wrote: > Hangman only allows only a certain number of "tries" before > the man is hanged. So, that will tell you at what size to constrain Hmmm. That's right. Usually it also keeps track of wrong guesses (separately I assume), so that if the user enters the same wrong guess twice, that isn't counted against them twice. But there's no sense in making the poor student put in all these extra features if they aren't in the actual assignment (execpt perhaps for extra credit). > Something even more fun would be to figure out how to make your Ada > program do some nifty pixel-type graphics. Here is a good place to > start for that: Errr...let's let the poor guy get used to simple data structures before we throw him into Win32 GUI programming, huh? :-) -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/