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  • H H Brydon

    My favorite game is called "Visual Studio". The goal of the game is to write some code. If it compiles correctly with no warnings or errors, you win the first level. If it runs correctly, you win the next level. If you get it to run correctly on somebody else's system, that is the next level. ... If you can package it into an installer, the next. I've been playing it for years. I am at level 42. [I'm also Canadian. Ha!]

    -- Harvey

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    Rage
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    ... This is even more difficult since it VS crashes several times a day and you have to restart the game from the last checkpoint...

    ~RaGE();

    I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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    • N Nagy Vilmos

      Aunty[^]:

      A Canadian accountant has managed to create a basic video game using only Excel spreadsheets.

      Can you do better? Or bitter?

      Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol

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      Colin Eberhardt
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      That's nothing compared to the Excel version of PacMan that was doing the round a few years ago: http://www.geocities.jp/nchikada/pac/[^] Words cannot describe just how awesome that is!

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      • R Rage

        ... This is even more difficult since it VS crashes several times a day and you have to restart the game from the last checkpoint...

        ~RaGE();

        I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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        c2423
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        I'm also pretty sure the game AI cheats to beat you.

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          I'm also pretty sure the game AI cheats to beat you.

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          Rage
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          Yeah, it is named Intellisense.

          ~RaGE();

          I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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          • R Rage

            Tried it - crashed after I met the first enemy.* Sums it up pretty accurately : Accountants are all good and nice until the first trouble arise. *Have a german version of Excel. I doubt any American MBA candidate accountant thought about localization - at least these makes three reasons why they would not.

            ~RaGE();

            I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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            emartinho
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            Nope. I'm using an English version (Canadian English, maybe that's the problem????? ;p)and it also crashed after the first enemy. Back to the drawing board Mr. Canadian Accountant! :D -EM

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            • H H Brydon

              The Bhai wrote:

              If you do this first time you are not a real programmer.

              Ha ha - my first program ever (literally) compiled and ran correctly the first time. It was FORTRAN, and I summed the numbers from 1 to 10 and printed the result (not that trivial in FORTRAN). Whenever I learn a new language, this is my own personal canonical first program. So I don't ever do "Hello world" you see. Maybe that is why I am a software developer, not a programmer.

              -- Harvey

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              Forogar
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              My first program ever was written in assembler and worked perfectly the first time. When the results came rattling back over the teletype it consisted of just a single character, "4". Guess what the program did!

              - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                My first program ever was written in assembler and worked perfectly the first time. When the results came rattling back over the teletype it consisted of just a single character, "4". Guess what the program did!

                - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                hairy_hats
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                Print "4"? Do I get my £5?

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                • H hairy_hats

                  Print "4"? Do I get my £5?

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                  Forogar
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                  Wrong! Now you owe me £5.

                  - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                  • F Forogar

                    My first program ever was written in assembler and worked perfectly the first time. When the results came rattling back over the teletype it consisted of just a single character, "4". Guess what the program did!

                    - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                    It printed the game level you just accomplished!

                    -- Harvey

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                      Nope. I'm using an English version (Canadian English, maybe that's the problem????? ;p)and it also crashed after the first enemy. Back to the drawing board Mr. Canadian Accountant! :D -EM

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                      Are you sure it's a Canadian accountant? Sounds more like a Cypriot one to me... :suss:

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                      • H H Brydon

                        It printed the game level you just accomplished!

                        -- Harvey

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                        Forogar
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                        Game? Game? Programming was serious stuff back in the Bronze Age! We didn't have no stinkin' games!

                        - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                        • N Nagy Vilmos

                          Aunty[^]:

                          A Canadian accountant has managed to create a basic video game using only Excel spreadsheets.

                          Can you do better? Or bitter?

                          Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol

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                          dusty_dex
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                          But Pacman has been around for some time in Excel arstechnica.com/gaming/2006 :laugh:

                          "It's true that hard work never killed anyone. But I figure, why take the chance." - Ronald Reagan That's what machines are for. Got a problem? Sleep on it.

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                          • N Nagy Vilmos

                            Aunty[^]:

                            A Canadian accountant has managed to create a basic video game using only Excel spreadsheets.

                            Can you do better? Or bitter?

                            Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol

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                            Bassam Abdul Baki
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                            You assume he knows how to use Excel. ;P

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