Comments on: GRE and GT

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:35:59 +0000

*ROTFL* Heck Mark, I made almost the exact same quiz, in Commodore Basic though!

Yeah, in grammar school I tested REAL high in the IQ department, but today, I’d probably come in as a low-grade moron. Go figure.

Have a great weekend bud.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:12:01 +0000

Ha! That’s funny. Reminds me of the programs I played with on the Apple IIe in seventh grade. That was cutting-edge stuff back then. My brother and I actually created some quizzes that looked kind of like this:

10 Print “Who is the greatest rock guitarist?”
20 Input A$
30 If A$ = “Eddie Van Halen” then goto 60
40 Print “Wrong! It’s Eddie Van Halen. Better luck on the next question.”
50 Goto 70
60 Print “You’re right. Rock on!”
70 Print “Who is the greatest rock vocalist?”

And so on. Terrible stuff, really, and probably horribly inefficient programming, but we were making the computer “do something,” so it seemed amazing. Good old Applesoft Basic.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:12:57 +0000

Your turtle drawing alIowed me to recall skipping a few classes in elementary school, since I was a little above average, and going to the “computer lab” (I use the term loosely, it being the ’80s) and making a little turtle draw green lines on a less-green screen using the LOGO program.

Good times…