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Any runners on here? I mostly consider myself a trail runner, but of course train on roads, too. Good for 1–2 races/year, more into running as a practice, a way to manage stress and stay fit.
Any conversation
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I'm doing experiments with short attention-span students and code. Starting with python, and, oddly, now working in BASIC. As a C programmer of 40+ years, I find this aesthetically and pedagogically displeasing, but I am delighted to see them getting fully absorbed in writing
130 PRINT "You have been eaten by a bear!" : GOTO 900. Yes there is spaghetti, but it's their spaghetti and they seem to take delight in debugging it. Python will come later. wrote:
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let N=6,D0=[0,1,0,-1],D1=[1,0,-1,0],s=[],g={},d=x=y=xa=xb=ya=yb=0;
for(let n=0;n<N;n++){s=s.concat([1]).concat(s.map(x=>!x).reverse())}
for(let i=0;i<s.length;i++) {
x<xa && (xa=x);y<ya && (ya=y);x>xb && (xb=x);y>yb && (yb=y);
let t=s[i]?1:-1,e=(d+t+4)%4;
g[x]||(g[x]={});
g[x][y]=g[x][y]?"┼":"┌┐└┘"[(t*(D0[d]+D0[e])>0?0:2)+(t*(D1[d]+D1[e])>0?0:1)];
x+=D0[e];y+=D1[e];d=e;
}
for(j=yb;j>=ya;j--) {
let u=""; for(i=xa;i<=xb;i++){u+=(g[i][j]||"·")} console.log(u);
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