Re: TIB: Re: RE: Proposal: To weed out useless and no good TI-BASIC prog
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Re: TIB: Re: RE: Proposal: To weed out useless and no good TI-BASIC programs on ticalc.org
---jroush <jroush@bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> > From: The Garth Johnson <gbjohnson@yahoo.com>
> > To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
> > Subject: Re: TIB: Re: RE: Proposal: To weed out useless and no good
> TI-BASIC programs on ticalc.org
> > Date: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 9:14 AM
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> > ---Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@isd.ingham.k12.mi.us> wrote:
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> > > Matthew wrote:
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> > > > This might be a bit labor intensive, but how about creating a
second
> > > > directory tree for the good ones. Every one gets posted in one,
> > and the
> > > > good programs get put in both.
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> > > > Just a thought,
> > > > Matthew
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> > > Too much work, I like the 4 (or 5) star rating system better.
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> > > --
> > > Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
> > > File Archives, HTML, and Support
> > > the ticalc.org project - http://www.ticalc.org/
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> > How about having several categories to rate the programs by? have a
> > compactness of the programming (if the author did everything using
the
> > least amount of code possible), the usefulness of a program (could
be
> > how fun a game is), and some other category.
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> > Instead of having a 4/5 star system, use a 3 star. It would be a
> > yes/no/sorta system if the author did whatever the criteria are.
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> ok, look, this is my 2 cents:
> lets say you have progs A, B, and C.
> A has the most features.
> B has fewer features, but some that A doesn't
> C looks like a personalized copy of B
> what do you keep ??
> A and B, you don't need C is that simple enough for everyone?
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but what if C (which is a copy of B) has some stuff simplified? What
if the author rewrote some things to make the prog smaller? then what
do you do? (I have done this--download programs and rewrite them, but
I wouldn't ever upload them to ticalc.org unless I added something
signifigant.)
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