As cool as Google is, you know neither of you actually suggested a programming book :-P
I'm hoping for hints, help, suggestions guys lol On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, 11:57 pm James Zeun, <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be even cooler on a TRS80 M100. > > At the moment I understood only a little bit of what you said. Which is > why I'm trying to secure some sort of learning aid, commonly known in old > days as book! :-) As to whether the organic storage medium is still > working, I suspect it's developed a few bad sectors over the years, I blame > beer! But it's still fairly operational, well almost... > > > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, 11:50 pm John R. Hogerhuis, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 3:37 PM James Zeun <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> So I know bog all about programming. But part of me wouldn't mind >>> dabbling a little bit on my M100. >>> Someone once said the best way to program, is to have a project in mind. >>> >>> For me it would a Dungeons & Dragons Dice roller. Select which dice, D4, >>> D6, D20 ect, number of dice and the let it roll. Maybe even with graphical >>> output. >>> >>> >> Good first project. My recommendation would be, since it works so fast, >> to roll them all with each hit of the enter key. Then the user can decide >> at a glance which values he cares about for the roll. >> >> And it's less fiddly since the user doesn't need to do anything except >> hit the any key to roll. >> >> Another way would be to INKEY$ poll for two numbers. One for the >> repetition and the second for the # sides. >> >> 4, 6, 2 for 4, 6 and 20. >> >> Or you could just use the standard specifiers like 2d20<enter> and parse >> it. >> >> I just noticed you can do this in Google. If you type 5d6 into your >> search bar it rolls 5 6-sided dice. Very cool! >> >> -- John. >> >
