Programming :3

[frost_spirit]

This time I'm not here to bring you a fic. Yes, how disappointing, I know. Instead, I'm here to gush about a program that I wrote.

I've only been learning programming for a couple of months, so understandably my skills are still almost nonexistent. I decided to code something just for the sake of practice; preferably something that would help me with my fic writing or character creation.

So what kind of program did I write? A recipe/cooking skill picker inspired by Tales of Symphonia's cooking system! Sound nerdy (or sad) enough? Check under the cut for more info.

So here's a screenshot showing what the program does (and you can see part of the source code, too). I've refined the program a little since taking this screenshot, but it's still not as complete as I wish it were.



So here's how it works: You run the program. It asks for input. You give it the correct kind of input (or face the wrath of error messages) and choose a recipe/get one chosen for you at random. (Note: recipe number 25, Apple Pie, does not exist in Symphonia. I'm sure other Symphonia-obsessed geeks noticed that already. :P The reason for the 25th recipe being there is that I needed 25 recipes at first to make it easier to deal with the numbers (because I had some trouble with getting the pseudo-random numbers Math.random() spits out to be in the correct range). Later I figured how to get the correct kind of numbers and didn't need the 25th recipe any longer, but I liked having it there because Symphonia has so few sweet recipes, so I left it in.)

Once the recipe has been chosen, you get a max cooking skill value for it. The value can be anything between 0 and 7. I know that in Symphonia, the lowest possible max skill is 2, not 0, but I figured my own characters at least can be so terrible at cooking that they'll never be able to reach skill level 2. :P The current cooking skill level is anything between 0 and the maximum skill value.

The geek that I am, I used the program to decide Yuan and Botta's cooking skills, too. Being as random as the program is, the results were... amusing:



Yeah. According to my results, Yuan is terrible at cooking. XD Of course, there is considerable variation, as seen in the cases of Paella and Beef Stew... Anyway, the number of zeros made me laugh. This is obviously just the result of a single run of the program, but I think I'm going to run with this for my fics.

If anyone is interested, here are the results I got for Yuan and Botta in their entirety. I'd like to make the program available for your use, but it's not very sophisticated or complete and I doubt anyone has use for it. :P Do tell me if you're interested in trying it out and I'll try to refine it and make it into an applet or... something.

Comments

XD

[soryualeksi.livejournal.com]

Awww, what's this? So cool! *squeal*
I think the idea is amazing. X´D

Re: XD

[frost-spirit.livejournal.com]

Once a geek, always a geek? XD The program is so basic and rudimentary that it's almost embarrassing, but I'm still ridiculously proud of having been able to write my first own program from scratch. :3 As I mentioned, the program is entirely random in giving its output, so it's of limited use, but it's working all right for me. :)