I just made my first real program for my Ti-83+

[-fool-]

Kickass. Just finished making blackjack. It has:

- Money system that works perfectly
- Player
- Dealer
- Aces convert to 1's at all times
- Dealer works real good
- Player and dealer can hit up to 3 times (im going to add more.. adding hits isnt hard at all just takes a long time because of checking for aces.)

This may not seem like a lot. But when trying stuff on a Calculator screen, that is 16 Spaces Wide and 8 Units tall, not much can fit on there at once. And i got over 250 lines of code. And i got confused on the variables and my labels and gotos a lot by the 2nd hit so i had to make a list . When labels and gotos can only be 1-9 and A-Z, and variables can only be A-Z, it gets confusing.

the ONE thing that can cause an "error" is that fact that you can get any amount of the same card. Theoretically, you could right now get 5 4's, and So can the dealer. So theres 10 4's in play... That is one thing the ti 83 cant fix i think, and you would need to make the program on your computer then import it to fix that.

so if anyone knows how to fix that, or wants to give me ideas on other games that are slightly more complicated - so i can try them next - im open to suggestions.

 

[Duwenbasden]

use a list to keep track of the # of cards used.

I also made a game that you need to clear the board using a bot that cannot backtrack.

 

[-fool-]

thats cool. i was thinking about just another card game, or a real game. i thought of trying to make snake but that seemed really hard once i thought about it.

and i dont know how i would use a list to track the # of cards. it takes a number between 2-14, so i could say if any number appears 4 times it repicks the last card, but i dont know how to do that ! and i dont want to make a program that deletes one of my lists and uses it for the game because i need them for stat! (i could get over though )

 

[Duwenbasden]

create a new list then L(name???) seems pretty good.

List are like arrays, they start from 0, so make a list 13 size, and re-random a card if the list[cardnum-1] is 4.