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by doloop
May 25th, '17, 15:13
Forum: Projects
Topic: Monty Hall Problem Game
Replies: 0
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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...
by doloop
May 24th, '17, 18:02
Forum: Working with GP
Topic: Why does while loop execute more often than forever?
Replies: 3
Views: 8350

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...
by doloop
May 24th, '17, 14:40
Forum: Working with GP
Topic: arctan takes two parameters?
Replies: 3
Views: 6391

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...