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- May 25th, '17, 15:13
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Monty Hall Problem Game
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Monty Hall Problem Game
I'm familiarizing myself with GP. I created a project that plays out the famous "Monty Hall Problem". See Wikipedia and here . It would be a good "starter project" for students using GP to learn programming because it is an interesting statistical problem and because it could use GP's graphical abil...
- May 24th, '17, 18:02
- Forum: Working with GP
- Topic: Why does while loop execute more often than forever?
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Re: Why does while loop execute more often than forever?
Originally, GP's forever loop was called "animate" to emphasize it's special property, but kids coming to GP from Scratch kept asking for the "forever" loop, so I changed the name to "forever". But perhaps it should be changed back to "animate" -- what do you think? FWIW, I vote for "animate." That...
- May 24th, '17, 14:40
- Forum: Working with GP
- Topic: arctan takes two parameters?
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Re: arctan takes two parameters?
The second problem is that GP's directions currently increase clockwise, whereas "arctan" assumes that angles increase counterclockwise. We've had discussions in the GP team about which way angles should increase. One argument is that most users would expect "increase rotation by 30" to turn the ob...