Spaceball Source Code

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

Hi!
I'm new to this field.
Actually i'm a new programmer. And i've never worked in C.

It is my humble request to you to provide me with the source code for
Spaceball (the game in which there's a ball...etc).

Thanks in Anticipation

[Chris M. Thomasson]

"Adeel Hasan Akbari" <ad**********@gmail.comwrote in message
news:6a**********************************@v57g2000 hse.googlegroups.com...

Hi!
I'm new to this field.
Actually i'm a new programmer. And i've never worked in C.

It is my humble request to you to provide me with the source code for
Spaceball (the game in which there's a ball...etc).

Thanks in Anticipation

:^|

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

Pardon, That wasn't quite helpful!

[Chris M. Thomasson]

"Adeel Hasan Akbari" <ad**********@gmail.comwrote in message
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Pardon, That wasn't quite helpful!

Perhaps:

spaceball+c+"source-code"

I never played the game...

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

Thanks ... But that doesn't work either...I tried it on Google!

[Chris M. Thomasson]

"Adeel Hasan Akbari" <ad**********@gmail.comwrote in message
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Thanks ... But that doesn't work either...I tried it on Google!

Well, I never played spaceball; please educate me?

[Chris M. Thomasson]

"Chris M. Thomasson" <[e-mail] in message
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"Adeel Hasan Akbari" <ad**********@gmail.comwrote in message
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>Thanks ... But that doesn't work either...I tried it on Google!

Well, I never played spaceball; please educate me?

So far, the only info I have is that, humm... Well let me quote one of your
sentences:

(The game in which there's a ball...etc)
(Football... Volleyball... Soccer... Baseball... ect)

Perhaps...

(Football in orbit... Volleyball on the moon... Soccer on mars... Baseball
in galaxy 4, solar system 2, planet 8, moon 5... ect)

?
:^|

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

----------Wikipedia----------
SpaceBall was a miniature video game appearing on several models of LG
brand mobile phones. The game was similar in concept to Snake, a title
that was packaged with many Nokia brand cellular phones.

OBJECT:
The object of the game was to guide a small animal, the head of which
resembled a rabbit with the horn of a unicorn, around a playing field
gathering colored balls. The player had a set amount of time to clear
the board without running into itself or a wall, or letting itself
grow too long. If a player did any of these, or ran out of time, he
lost a life (referred to as a "fail" in the game) and had to restart
the level from the beginning. Failing four times ended the game; no
extra lives were offered at any point in the game.
----------Wikipedia----------

[Chris M. Thomasson]

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"Adeel Hasan Akbari" <ad**********@gmail.comwrote in message
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Thanks ... But that doesn't work either...I tried it on Google!

Well, I never played spaceball; please educate me?

So far, the only info I have is that, humm... Well let me quote one of
your sentences:

(The game in which there's a ball...etc)
(Football... Volleyball... Soccer... Baseball... ect)

Oh crap... Sorry for misquoting you! Your sentence was exactly:

"It is my humble request to you to provide me with the source code for
Spaceball (the game in which there's a ball...etc)."

Sorry about that non-sense.

Perhaps...

(Football in orbit... Volleyball on the moon... Soccer on mars...
Baseball in galaxy 4, solar system 2, planet 8, moon 5... ect)

?
:^|

[Chris M. Thomasson]

"Adeel Hasan Akbari" <ad**********@gmail.comwrote in message
news:ca**********************************@k13g2000 hse.googlegroups.com...

----------Wikipedia----------
SpaceBall was a miniature video game appearing on several models of LG
brand mobile phones. The game was similar in concept to Snake, a title
that was packaged with many Nokia brand cellular phones.

OBJECT:
The object of the game was to guide a small animal, the head of which
resembled a rabbit with the horn of a unicorn, around a playing field
gathering colored balls. The player had a set amount of time to clear
the board without running into itself or a wall, or letting itself
grow too long. If a player did any of these, or ran out of time, he
lost a life (referred to as a "fail" in the game) and had to restart
the level from the beginning. Failing four times ended the game; no
extra lives were offered at any point in the game.
----------Wikipedia----------

Well, try here:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....c&q=snake+game

http://www.mycplus.com/out.asp?CID=1&SCID=66

why not ask your teacher?

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

Here's the entire article on Spaceball: (Source: Wikipedia)
[Continued from previous post]

>>Levels

Each of the game's twenty levels grew progressively harder. The first
level simply contained an open field, of which the character could
leave one side and re-enter the screen immediately on the other. Later
levels introduced borders around the field to prevent such exit and re-
entry; walls, blocks, and other obstacles in the middle of the screen;
and finally all-out mazes with narrow paths that strictly limited the
animal's range of motion.

>>Rules

A level always began with three red segments attached to the
creature's head. Eating any red balls with only these segments
attached would not cause the animal to grow. Eating any other colored
ball caused it to attach as a segment to the tail end of the creature,
as did eating a red ball with segments of any other color already on
the animal.

A player could clear segments off the animal by attaching three balls
of the same color to its tail. This could be done by simply eating
three of the same color in a row, or by eating one or two of one
color, eating three of another (clearing them), then eating a third
(or a second and a third) of the original color. The importance of
shortening the body was twofold: a longer creature ran a more
dangerous risk of running into itself and dying immediately; also, if
a player cleared the board while the character's body was too long
(indicated by a number in the corner of the screen), the player failed
(lost a life) and had to restart the level.

>>Bonus balls

Occasionally, a flashing bonus ball appeared on the playing screen.
This ball was white with a red dot in the middle, and its appearance
was marked by the player's phone vibrating. If the animal ate the
bonus ball, one of four random effects would occur:

* The timer resetting to full
* The character's tail resetting to three red segments
* All remaining balls on the field changing to the color of the
last one eaten
* All balls changing color and position.

Two of these bonus balls appeared per life, per level.

_____________________COMMENT_______________
I don't want such a complex game - Just a single level game which
performs the basic function!

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

why not ask your teacher?

Smart Question - Its an Assignment - And i don't have a clue how to do
it!!!

I missed those lectures!!!

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

Thanks So much for the help....

At least i now have something to go on...!

But I need SPaceball - not Snake...!
Thanks Again!

[Richard Bos]

Adeel Hasan Akbari <ad**********@gmail.comwrote:

why not ask your teacher?

Smart Question - Its an Assignment - And i don't have a clue how to do
it!!!

I missed those lectures!!!

So now you expect _us_ to do _your_ homework because _you_ were too lazy
to turn up for class? Do the world a favour, and fail the course.

Richard

[Chris M. Thomasson]

"Chris M. Thomasson" <[e-mail] in message
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"Adeel Hasan Akbari" <ad**********@gmail.comwrote in message
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>----------Wikipedia----------
SpaceBall was a miniature video game appearing on several models of LG
brand mobile phones. The game was similar in concept to Snake, a title
that was packaged with many Nokia brand cellular phones.

[...]

Actually, I programmed a snake game when I was just a little kid; the game
itself is really nothing new at all...

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

On Aug 15, 5:42*pm, [e-mail] (Richard Bos) wrote:

Adeel Hasan Akbari <[e-mail]:

why not ask your teacher?

Smart Question - Its an Assignment - And i don't have a clue how to do
it!!!

I missed those lectures!!!

So now you expect _us_ to do _your_ homework because _you_ were too lazy
to turn up for class? Do the world a favour, and fail the course.

Richard

Hey! Thats cruel!

Believe me, i won't fail. As for the request for the code _ Get a life
- I requested the code since the code i designed is a complete dud.
The code doesn't even reach the compilation stage!!!!

[Chris M. Thomasson]

"Adeel Hasan Akbari" <ad**********@gmail.comwrote in message
news:e6**********************************@v57g2000 hse.googlegroups.com...

>why not ask your teacher?

Smart Question - Its an Assignment - And i don't have a clue how to do
it!!!

I missed those lectures!!!

Ummmm... PLEASE; talk to your teacher one-on-one. I am quite sure she/he is
a very nice person who would love to give you a boat load of pointers. Every
teacher I have ever met gets really pissed off when one of their students
fails... Especially when they NEVER ask for HELP! Don't you DARE be
intimidated! Just ask for help; be humble and state your case! If your
teacher scolds you, think about if you truly deserve it or not! You missed
lectures... Were/Are you sick? What's the problem? Got a doctors note? Ouch!

;^|

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

In article
<6a**********************************@v57g2000hse. googlegroups.com>, Adeel
Hasan Akbari wrote:

Hi!
I'm new to this field.
Actually i'm a new programmer. And i've never worked in C.

It is my humble request to you to provide me with the source code for
Spaceball (the game in which there's a ball...etc).

Thanks in Anticipation

Try <news:comp.sources.wanted>.

Regards,
Tristan

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[CBFalconer]

Adeel Hasan Akbari wrote:

>
Thanks ... But that doesn't work either...I tried it on Google!

If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, ensure you
quote enough for the article to make sense. Google is only an
interface to Usenet; it's not Usenet itself. Don't assume your
readers can, or ever will, see any previous articles.

More details at: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/>

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Try the download section.

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

Adeel Hasan Akbari <ad**********@gmail.comwrote:

----------Wikipedia----------
SpaceBall was a miniature video game appearing on several models of LG
brand mobile phones. The game was similar in concept to Snake, a title
that was packaged with many Nokia brand cellular phones.

What makes you believe that it was written in C at all? And if it
was that there would be much you would be able to use? And if it
was on Nokia phones where did you get the idea that they would
have released the sources for it?

I guess your best chance is that continue to try to write your own
implementation of the game. If you do it in C and have problems with
the C part of the task this here is the right group to ask for help
(but note that e.g. graphics are system specific and you have to
look for a group that deals with the details of that). If you want
full sources for something (assuming that they exist and the author
is prepared to share it) then there's alt.source.wanted (but I would
not hold my breath waiting for a reply...)

Regards, Jens
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\__________________________ http://toerring.de

[Keith Thompson]

Adeel Hasan Akbari <ad**********@gmail.comwrites:

>why not ask your teacher?

Smart Question - Its an Assignment - And i don't have a clue how to do
it!!!

I missed those lectures!!!

Please give us your instructor's e-mail address so we can submit the
source code directly. Why should you get any credit for our work?

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Nokia
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

[Kenneth Brody]

Adeel Hasan Akbari wrote:

>
On Aug 15, 5:42 pm, [e-mail] (Richard Bos) wrote:

Adeel Hasan Akbari <[e-mail]:

why not ask your teacher?

Smart Question - Its an Assignment - And i don't have a clue how to do
it!!!

I missed those lectures!!!

So now you expect _us_ to do _your_ homework because _you_ were too lazy
to turn up for class? Do the world a favour, and fail the course.

Hey! Thats cruel!

That's life. "I can't do my work, so you should do it for me because
I can't be bothered to figure things out" deserves such a reply.

Believe me, i won't fail. As for the request for the code _ Get a life
- I requested the code since the code i designed is a complete dud.
The code doesn't even reach the compilation stage!!!!

So, you can't even get your code to compile, and you think you won't
fail the course? Well, unless you get someone to do it for you, it
sounds like you certainly deserve to fail.

Now, if you want to post the code that you're having problems with,
and ask for help on correcting those problems, by all means do so.
However, given the description of the game, I assume there will be
plenty of system-specific questions you have, and they need to be
asked elsewhere.

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On Aug 15, 7:46*am, Adeel Hasan Akbari <ad**********@gmail.comwrote:

On Aug 15, 5:42*pm, [e-mail] (Richard Bos) wrote:

Adeel Hasan Akbari <[e-mail]:

why not ask your teacher?

Smart Question - Its an Assignment - And i don't have a clue how to do
it!!!

I missed those lectures!!!

So now you expect _us_ to do _your_ homework because _you_ were too lazy
to turn up for class? Do the world a favour, and fail the course.

Richard

Hey! Thats cruel!

Believe me, i won't fail. As for the request for the code _ Get a life
- I requested the code since the code i designed is a complete dud.
The code doesn't even reach the compilation stage!!!!

OK, here's a rough version of a program that does what you want:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

void encrypt(char *message, int shift)
{
static const char letters[] = {
'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J',
'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P', 'Q', 'R', 'S', 'T',
'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z'
};

#define LETTERS (sizeof(letters) / sizeof(letters[0]))

while (*message != '\0') {
for (const char *l = letters; l < letters + LETTERS; ++l)
if (toupper(*message) == *l) {
if (toupper(*message) == *message)
*message = *(letters + (((l - letters) + shift) %
LETTERS));
else
*message = tolower(*(letters + (((l - letters) +
shift) % LETTERS)));

break;
}

++message;
}
}

int main(void)
{
char msg[] = "Qb lbhe bja ubzrjbex!";
encrypt(msg, 13);
puts(msg);
}

Sebastian

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

>Ummmm... PLEASE; talk to your teacher one-on-one. I am quite sure >she/he is

>a very nice person who would love to give you a boat load of >pointers. Every
teacher I have ever met gets really pissed off when one of their >students
fails... Especially when they NEVER ask for HELP! Don't you DARE be
intimidated! Just ask for help; be humble and state your case! If >your teacher scolds you, think about if you truly deserve it or not! >You missed lectures... Were/Are you sick? What's the problem? Got a >doctors note? Ouch!

Thanks Mr. Chris M. Thomasson - Your link to the snake source code
solved the problem. I've completed the coding and compiled it. The
program is now in working condition. Thank You!
__________________________________________________ __
__________________Keith Thompson____________________

>Please give us your instructor's e-mail address so we can submit >the source code directly. Why should you get any credit for our >work?

By all means do so - Here's the ID: az********@neduet.edu.pk
As for your question of credit - Did i ask anyone to write the code
for me? Answer: NO
I requested help - If you cannot provide it, it would do you good to
please shut up. (Pardon my insolence)

__________________________________________________ ___
____________________Kenneth Brody____________________

>So, you can't even get your code to compile, and you think you >won't fail the course? Well, unless you get someone to do it for >you, it sounds like you certainly deserve to fail.

>Now, if you want to post the code that you're having problems >with, and ask for help on correcting those problems, by all means >do so.
However, given the description of the game, I assume there will be
plenty of system-specific questions you have, and they need to be
asked elsewhere.

Please research before posting abrasive replies - I mentioned in the
first sentence that I am inexperienced - implying that i lack the
amount of experience that you may have. But i see now that your
experience has inflated you to the bursting point.

As far as the question of my deserving to fail is concerned - It is to
inform you that I have successfully written and compiled many other
assignments - Including games like QuadraPOP, RaceMon and Waterfall -
I faced difficulty because I missed this specific lecture. I hope this
answers all your arguments?

___________________________________________
___________________________________________

[Keith Thompson]

Adeel Hasan Akbari <ad**********@gmail.comwrites:
[...]

__________________Keith Thompson____________________

>>Please give us your instructor's e-mail address so we can submit >the source code directly. Why should you get any credit for our >work?

By all means do so - Here's the ID: az********@neduet.edu.pk
As for your question of credit - Did i ask anyone to write the code
for me? Answer: NO
I requested help - If you cannot provide it, it would do you good to
please shut up. (Pardon my insolence)

Your original post was:
| Hi!
| I'm new to this field.
| Actually i'm a new programmer. And i've never worked in C.
|
| It is my humble request to you to provide me with the source code for
| Spaceball (the game in which there's a ball...etc).
|
| Thanks in Anticipation

You eventually acknowledged that this was a homework assignment, and
that you didn't have a clue now to do it.

The obvious conclusion was that you intended to obtain the source code
and turn it in as if you had written it. We get plenty of people who
post here and try to do exactly that.

If you had some other purpose in mind, it's *still* not at all clear.
If it is your intention to turn in the source code as if you had
written it, you richly deserve to fail. If not, it's up to you to
explain why you need the source code if you expect any help.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Nokia
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

[Flash Gordon]

Adeel Hasan Akbari wrote, On 15/08/08 21:26:

>Ummmm... PLEASE; talk to your teacher one-on-one. I am quite sure >she/he is
a very nice person who would love to give you a boat load of >pointers. Every
teacher I have ever met gets really pissed off when one of their >students
fails... Especially when they NEVER ask for HELP! Don't you DARE be
intimidated! Just ask for help; be humble and state your case! If >your teacher scolds you, think about if you truly deserve it or not! >You missed lectures... Were/Are you sick? What's the problem? Got a >doctors note? Ouch!

Thanks Mr. Chris M. Thomasson - Your link to the snake source code
solved the problem. I've completed the coding and compiled it. The
program is now in working condition. Thank You!

Ah well, you will probably fail due to inability to do other work based
on what you have posted here.

__________________Keith Thompson____________________

>Please give us your instructor's e-mail address so we can submit >the source code directly. Why should you get any credit for our >work?

By all means do so - Here's the ID: az********@neduet.edu.pk

If that is real and someone sends a link to this thread to your teacher
you are likely to find yourself having to do some explaining.

As for your question of credit - Did i ask anyone to write the code
for me? Answer: NO
I requested help - If you cannot provide it, it would do you good to
please shut up. (Pardon my insolence)

Actually, you asked us to provide you with the code. Admittedly someone
could have done this by finding code written by another person, but it
is *still* asking for code written by someone other than you for a
project where *you* are meant to write the code.

__________________________________________________ ___
____________________Kenneth Brody____________________

>So, you can't even get your code to compile, and you think you >won't fail the course? Well, unless you get someone to do it for >you, it sounds like you certainly deserve to fail.

>Now, if you want to post the code that you're having problems >with, and ask for help on correcting those problems, by all means >do so.
However, given the description of the game, I assume there will be
plenty of system-specific questions you have, and they need to be
asked elsewhere.

Please research before posting abrasive replies - I mentioned in the
first sentence that I am inexperienced - implying that i lack the
amount of experience that you may have.

How do you expect to become experienced if instead of writing your own
code you submit code written by others?

But i see now that your
experience has inflated you to the bursting point.

His post gives no evidence of that.

As far as the question of my deserving to fail is concerned - It is to
inform you that I have successfully written and compiled many other
assignments - Including games like QuadraPOP, RaceMon and Waterfall -
I faced difficulty because I missed this specific lecture. I hope this
answers all your arguments?

No, all it does is suggest that you might be trying to cheat because you
are lazy rather than because you are completely unable to program.
--
Flash Gordon

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

On Aug 16, 2:08*am, Keith Thompson <[e-mail]:

Adeel Hasan Akbari <[e-mail]:
[...]

__________________Keith Thompson____________________

>Please give us your instructor's e-mail address so we can submit >the source code directly. *Why should you get any credit for our >work?

By all means do so - Here's the ID: [e-mail]
As for your question of credit - Did i ask anyone to write the code
for me? Answer: NO
I requested help - If you cannot provide it, it would do you good to
please shut up. (Pardon my insolence)

Your original post was:
| Hi!
| I'm new to this field.
| Actually i'm a new programmer. And i've never worked in C.
|
| It is my humble request to you to provide me with the source code for
| Spaceball (the game in which there's a ball...etc).
|
| Thanks in Anticipation

You eventually acknowledged that this was a homework assignment, and
that you didn't have a clue now to do it.

The obvious conclusion was that you intended to obtain the source code
and turn it in as if you had written it. *We get plenty of people who
post here and try to do exactly that.

If you had some other purpose in mind, it's *still* not at all clear.
If it is your intention to turn in the source code as if you had
written it, you richly deserve to fail. *If not, it's up to you to
explain why you need the source code if you expect any help.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) [e-mail] *<http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Nokia
"We must do something. *This is something. *Therefore, we must do this."
* * -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

__________________________________________
Please do not care to explain - You are obviously too inflated to see
the real purpose of the request - There is a thing called comparison -
You compare a faulty code with a working one to find the glitches in
your code - Obviously you are blind to the concept.

That is how we do coding - Mr. Asfar (Instructor) provides us with an
example code - then asks us to create a code which performs
approximately the same function.

And take a suggestion from a novice:
1. Don't jump to conclusions.
2. Don't Speak rubbish.
3. Don't post unless you have something important to say.

I know you'll retaliate - FYI - I really don't care - There exist many
like you. :)

Regards,
Adeel Hasan Akbari

[Andrew Poelstra]

On 2008-08-16, Adeel Hasan Akbari <ad**********@gmail.comwrote:

Please do not care to explain - You are obviously too inflated to see
the real purpose of the request - There is a thing called comparison -
You compare a faulty code with a working one to find the glitches in
your code - Obviously you are blind to the concept.

That doesn't make any sense - in any non-trivial program the
differences between implementations will be so great that you'd
be better off comparing your code with the *assignment* to see
where they differ.

I use a strategy called "debugging" to fix my code - it involves
systematically locating and eliminating incorrect behavior through
testing and program analysis.

That is how we do coding - Mr. Asfar (Instructor) provides us with an
example code - then asks us to create a code which performs
approximately the same function.

That's how you do lessons. It's not how you do projects.

And take a suggestion from a novice:
1. Don't jump to conclusions.
2. Don't Speak rubbish.
3. Don't post unless you have something important to say.

Aside from his mistaken belief that arguing with you might help
something, none of those suggestions are applicable to Mr. Heathfield
in this thread.

I know you'll retaliate - FYI - I really don't care - There exist many
like you. :)

Now you're just trolling. Plonk.

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Andrew Poelstra ap*******@wpsoftware.com
To email me, use the above email addresss with .com set to .net

[Keith Thompson]

Adeel Hasan Akbari <ad**********@gmail.comwrites:
[...]

Please do not care to explain - You are obviously too inflated to see
the real purpose of the request - There is a thing called comparison -
You compare a faulty code with a working one to find the glitches in
your code - Obviously you are blind to the concept.

[...]

Assuming that the real purpose of the request is what you claim it is,
I didn't see this real purpose because *you didn't tell us*.

Apparently the fact that I wasn't able to read your mind means that
I'm blind.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Nokia
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

[Richard Heathfield]

Andrew Poelstra said:

<snip>

Aside from his mistaken belief that arguing with you might help
something, none of those suggestions are applicable to Mr. Heathfield
in this thread.

For the record, *this* is my first article in this thread. I suspect that
you intended to type "Mr. Thompson".

--
Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk>
Email: -http://www. +rjh@
Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php>
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999

[santosh]

Adeel Hasan Akbari wrote:

On Aug 16, 2:08*am, Keith Thompson <[e-mail]:

>Adeel Hasan Akbari <[e-mail]:
[...]

__________________Keith Thompson____________________
Please give us your instructor's e-mail address so we can submit
the source code directly. *Why should you get any credit for our
work?

By all means do so - Here's the ID: [e-mail]
As for your question of credit - Did i ask anyone to write the code
for me? Answer: NO
I requested help - If you cannot provide it, it would do you good
to please shut up. (Pardon my insolence)

Your original post was:
| Hi!
| I'm new to this field.
| Actually i'm a new programmer. And i've never worked in C.
|
| It is my humble request to you to provide me with the source code
| for Spaceball (the game in which there's a ball...etc).
|
| Thanks in Anticipation

You eventually acknowledged that this was a homework assignment, and
that you didn't have a clue now to do it.

The obvious conclusion was that you intended to obtain the source
code and turn it in as if you had written it. *We get plenty of
people who post here and try to do exactly that.

If you had some other purpose in mind, it's *still* not at all clear.
If it is your intention to turn in the source code as if you had
written it, you richly deserve to fail. *If not, it's up to you to
explain why you need the source code if you expect any help.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) [e-mail]
<http://www.ghoti.net/~kstNokia
"We must do something. *This is something. *Therefore, we must do
this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

__________________________________________
Please do not care to explain - You are obviously too inflated to see
the real purpose of the request

It's not because he was "too inflated" that he failed to see the real
purpose of your request. It's because you didn't *state* the real
purpose of your request until this post. It's been the previous
experience of many long time posters to this group that the most common
reason for newbies asking for source code is to submit them to their
instructor as if it were written by them. Therefore you can perhaps
understand the rather reasonable assumptions made in response to your
original post. It's unfortunate that you did not clarify your positions
until now.

- There is a thing called comparison -
You compare a faulty code with a working one to find the glitches in
your code -

Hmm, this isn't a method *I'd* advocate for beginning programmers,
particularly with a language like C, but whatever floats your boat I
suppose.

Obviously you are blind to the concept.

I'm sure he isn't. Your respondants cannot be expected to divine your
motivations and purposes when you do not explicitly state them.

That is how we do coding - Mr. Asfar (Instructor) provides us with an
example code - then asks us to create a code which performs
approximately the same function.

Again, *not* a methodology that I'd use. A problem statement is almost
always better than showing sample code. In fact there was quite
recently a big thread over in comp.std.c over the Standard function
asctime() which is almost unique in being specified by a reference
implementation, and therefore has subtle issues that might have been
avoided had it been descriptively specified instead.

And take a suggestion from a novice:
1. Don't jump to conclusions.
2. Don't Speak rubbish.

I must take exception here. No one in this thread has, to my knowledge,
spoken rubbish.

3. Don't post unless you have something important to say.

This is a public forum. People will post what they want, and you'll have
to learn to ignore something you don't like. Arguments really get
nowhere in Cyberspace (not that it is different in real life.)

I know you'll retaliate

So you already view this as a sort of flamewar rather than as civil
exchange of views?

- FYI - I really don't care - There exist many like you. :)

If you examine the posting history of Mr. Thompson you'll see that he is
among the more helpful posters to this group, to the extent that some
trolls even make fun of his meticulousness and unflappability.

<snip>

[Andrew Poelstra]

On 2008-08-16, Richard Heathfield <rj*@see.sig.invalidwrote:

Andrew Poelstra said:

<snip>

>Aside from his mistaken belief that arguing with you might help
something, none of those suggestions are applicable to Mr. Heathfield
in this thread.

For the record, *this* is my first article in this thread. I suspect that
you intended to type "Mr. Thompson".

Really? I must've misread my newsreader then.

My apologies.

--
Andrew Poelstra ap*******@wpsoftware.com
To email me, use the above email addresss with .com set to .net

[Willem]

Adeel Hasan Akbari wrote:
) I know you'll retaliate - FYI - I really don't care - There exist many
) like you.

retaliate: (verb)
To return like for like, especially evil for evil.

I see that as a clear admission of guilt on your part.
SaSW, Willem
--
Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any of the statements
made in the above text. For all I know I might be
drugged or something..
No I'm not paranoid. You all think I'm paranoid, don't you !
#EOT

[Kenny McCormack]

In article <sl********************@snail.stack.nl>,
Willem <wi****@stack.nlwrote:

>Adeel Hasan Akbari wrote:
) I know you'll retaliate - FYI - I really don't care - There exist many
) like you.

retaliate: (verb)
To return like for like, especially evil for evil.

That's pretty sick, even by the twisted standards of clc.

That means you can never describe something as retaliation.