“Traitor, see you later” – Me

“There’s something in Canada” – Me

“Stress from my girl, stress from work, stress to drive a man berserk” – Me

“Life is a playground for mistakes” – Me

“I don’t know which one is correct, I just know one of them is wrong” – Me

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public boolean sleepIn(boolean weekday, boolean vacation) {
  if(!weekday || vacation){
  return true;
  }
  return false;
}

Monkey Trouble: Show ▼

public boolean monkeyTrouble(boolean aSmile, boolean bSmile) {
  return (aSmile == bSmile);
}

Warmup-2

String Times: Show ▼

public String stringTimes(String str, int n) {
  String newString = "";
  for(int i = 1; i <= n; i++){
  newString += str;
  }
  return newString;
}

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public String frontTimes(String str, int n) {
  String newString = "";
  int gui = 3;
  for(int i = 1; i <= n; i++){
  if(str.length() < 3){
  gui = str.length();
  }
  newString += str.substring(0,gui);
  }
  return newString;
}

String-1

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public String helloName(String name) {
  return "Hello " + name + "!";
}

Make ABBA: Show ▼

public String makeAbba(String a, String b) {
return a+b+b+a;
}

Make Tags: Show ▼

public String makeTags(String tag, String word) {
 return "<" + tag + ">" + word + "</" + tag + ">";
}

Make Out Word: Show ▼

public String makeOutWord(String out, String word) {
 return out.substring(0,2)+word+out.substring(2,4);
}

Extra End: Show ▼

public String extraEnd(String str) {
 return str.substring(str.length()-2)+str.substring(str.length()-2)+str.substring(str.length()-2);
}

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public String firstTwo(String str) {
 if(str.length() < 2) {
 if(str.length() == 0){
 return "";
 }
 return str;
 }else{
 return str.substring(0,2);
 }
}

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public String firstHalf(String str) {
 return str.substring(0, str.length()/2);
}

Without End: Show ▼

public String withoutEnd(String str) {
 return str.substring(1, str.length()-1);
}

Combo String: Show ▼

public String comboString(String a, String b) {
 if(a.length() < b.length()){
 return a + b + a;
 }
 if(a.length() > b.length()){
 return b + a + b;
 }
 return "";
}

The exact instructions for the program were

The pixels in the above image are numbered 0..99 for the first row, 100..199 for the second row etc. White pixels represent ascii codes. The ascii code for a particular white pixel is equal to the offset from the last white pixel. For example, the first white pixel at location 65 would represent ascii code 65 (‘A’), the next at location 131 would represent ascii code (131 – 65) = 66 (‘B’) and so on.

The text contained in the image is the answer encoded in Morse, where “a test” would be encoded as “.- / – . … -”

You have 15 seconds time to send the solution.

Now of course it says you have 15 seconds which is true and I did do it in 15 seconds, but since this site uses Javascript to count, you can simply disabe javascript to have unlimited time by using the Firefox plugin NoScript.

For example, the image I used was:

which gave the following numbers:

45 46 46 32 45 46 46 32 45 46 46 46 46 32 45 45 45 32 46 45 32 45 46 45 32 46 46 46 32 46 46 46 46 32 46 45 45 45 45 32 46 45 32

which was translated in the following ascii characters

-..  -..  -….  —  .-  -.-  …  ….  .—-  .-

which produced the following output using Morse code to translate:

dd6oaksh1a

The code that I used to program this was:

import Image
def multipleReplace(text, morse_code):
    for key in morse_code:
        text = text.replace(key, morse_code[key])
    return text
morse_code = {' .- ':'a',' -... ':'b',' -.-. ':'c',' -.. ':'d',' . ':'e',
            ' ..-. ':'f',' --. ':'g',' .... ':'h',' .. ':'i',' .--- ':'j',
            ' -.- ':'k',' .-.. ':'l',' -- ':'m',' -. ':'n',' --- ':'o',
            ' .--. ':'p',' --.- ':'q',' .-. ':'r',' ... ':'s',' _ ':'t',
            ' ..- ':'u',' ...- ':'v',' .-- ':'w',' -..- ':'x',' -.-- ':'y',
            ' --.. ':'z',' ----- ':'0',' .---- ':'1',' ..--- ':'2',
            ' ...-- ':'3',' ....- ':'4',' ..... ':'5',' -.... ':'6',
            ' --... ':'7',' ---.. ':'8',' ----. ':'9'}
im = Image.open("C:\PNG.png")
size = im.size
width = size[0]
height = size[1]
L = list()
last = 0
#The loop transforms the image into a list
#If the pixel is white, return 0, otherwise return 1
for i in range (0,height):
    K = list()
    for j in range (0,width):
        checker = (int)(im.getpixel((j,i)))
        if(checker == 1):
            K.append(1)
        else:
            K.append(0)
    L.append(K)
ascii = list()
count = 0
for i in range (0,height):
    for j in range (0,width):
        if(L[i][j] == 1): #determines if the pixel is on
            char = chr(count-last) #converts the distance
            #between the pixels to ascii
            if(char == " "):
                char = "  "
            ascii.append(char)
            last = count
        count+=1
morseCode = " "
for i in range (0,len(ascii)-1):
    morseCode += ascii[i]
morseCode += " "
print multipleReplace(morseCode, morse_code) #replaces the morse code
#with letters and numbers

My solution to this problem is Just Walk Right.  That way, if everyone follows the same pattern, no one would be forced to encounter another awkward standing moment.

This is also a page on Facebook.  Please fan.

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We all know that Facebook’s application Farmville has nearly 70 million monthly active users despite its simplicity.  However most people do not know that Farmville was actually the child of a Chinese game that is also on Facebook, but has a much lower user base (currently 3,372,366 monthly users), called Happy Farm.  It lacks in organization and some features that Farmville has, but has other redeeming traits including nicer graphics, different items, and different abilities, such as stealing.  Being Farmville’s predecessor, Happy Farm was rated in the Top 15 Most Influential Games of the Decade.

Farmville and Happy Farm Similarities

Neighbors

Just like in Farmville, Happy Farm revolves around you having neighbors.  You need neighbors to build a bigger farm so you can grow more crops just like in Farmville.

Happy Farm allows to interact with you neighbors in a few interesting ways:

There are four ways to interact with your neighbors: helping care for their farms, stealing some harvest, sending gifts and sending messages.

Gifts

Just like in Farmville you can send and receive gifts.  There are 5 different kinds of gifts: “free gifts, flower bouquet, toy and decoration, some other special items.”

Crops

What would a farm game be without crops? Even though both have crops, Happy Farm tends to revolve more around flowers where Farmville includes many types of crops.  Also, Happy Farm crops tend to have pests on them so another action in the game requires you to remove the pests.

Farmville and Happy Farm Differences

Exchange Center

Happy Farm includes a place where users can exchange items such as Dog Food and Toy Seed.  Sometimes special items can be found here as well.

Pet Store

The pet store is where you can buy different pets to help guard your property from thieves.  Thieves drop coins if caught by a pet.

Stealing

Unlike in Farmville, you can steal neighbors crops in Happy Farm but simply clicking on their crop when visiting their farm and choosing “Loot Harvest.”

Conclusion

Obviously both games are fun and have their redeeming qualities. I think Happy Farm looks nice and has some interesting features, but its user interface is fairly complicated.  I started using the application and I couldn’t figure out where things were.  While Farmville uses words such as Market and Gift on its icons, Happy Farm just uses pictures, making finding stuff complicated.  Also, happy Farm doesn’t have much room for expansion, but for the precursor to Farmville I think it is pretty fun.   Obviously the rest of the Facebook population agrees with Farmville being the better of the two.

However, now you can track Santa from Twitter, Facebook, and Google Earth/Maps. For further information you can read Brian McClendon’s, engineering director for Google Earth and Google Maps, article on tracking Santa.

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