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   A school assignment.  So it must encompass some aspects of education and must also be presentable to a teacher.  If you don't like how these rules work, then that's tough crap because it's my site.  So sit back and try not to concentrate.  I'm going to try to educate you on common aspects of my school.
 
 
The never ending loop 
   Since our regular teacher took some time off, Mr. Tinti has ordered us to make a website on Programming related topics.  Mr.Tinti is the coolest, or something like that.  Anyway, we have learned a few cool things since he arrived.  One thing is a never ending program. A "loop."
   A loop is a program designed to execute a set of information in the same way, in the same format. 
   First you type in Timer on to access your computers clock.  Type a for count = 1 to timer. This will start a count loop.  The cool thing is that the timer will never stop counting so the loop will never end. Then type in print count.  This will allow the user to see the loop in action, counting numbers.  Type in next so the loop can do the procedure over again. Finally type end, not for any reason because the program will never end, but just to make it look good. 
Note: This program is an infinite loop program, but it will end because there is only so much memory your computer can handle.  You will also get bored and want to exit the program.  Just do the magical and all-powerful buttons (ctrl + alt + delete) and end task.

Basic Programing Class
This was my favorite class this year.  My teacher, Mr. James Hoogland, says it isn't necessarily about your knowledge about computers and your ability to form new programs.  It is about comprehension and ability to solve problems.  Being wise doesn't mean you know a lot, it means you know how to use the knowledge you have to solve your problems.
 
 
Another more complicated loop that I don't fully understand deals with a random loop.  This loop deals with taking a set of numbers and getting random numbers from the set and determining the mean, median, mode, range, and other statistical data.
mean = average
median = middle number
mode = most reocurring number
range = number of numbers between biggest number and the smallest number
 
A classic example is in video and computer games when you, as a player, battle another charactor.  In old games the computer had specific directions on execution if the user did a certain comand.  Snowcraft is a randomnized game where the computer has random movements.  It also is an infinite loop.  It cannot end.

Whant to play Snowcraft?

Whant to play Pacman?

Thanks for your toleration and your ability to maintain a minisqule attention span.
 
Since I have no idea how to perform the tasks ordered, I must start from scratch with a seamingly incoherant message of such randomness that most people lose brain cells from reading. Then they forget to breathe and pass out. Then their parents have a spaz session about having a troubled child and the unconscious person, who was drooling at the time,wakes from his slumber and puts everything together. Finally he's forced to do his homework and ordered not to hang with his friends and all the happiness once present in his life is no more. That is why people snap.
 THE END.