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NatashaTheRobot / BreakoutCreateBounceBall
Created November 9, 2011 23:05
This is the solution to step 3 of the Stanford CS106A Breakout game assignment, creating a ball and making it bounce off the walls
//These are declared outside the method, but in the class.
/**Ball velocity*/
private double vx, vy;
/**Random number generator for vx*/
private RandomGenerator rgen = RandomGenerator.getInstance();
/** Animation delay or paust time between ball moves */
private static final int DELAY = 10;
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NatashaTheRobot / BreakoutCheckCollisions
Created November 10, 2011 05:42
This is the solution to step 4 of the Stanford CS106A Breakout game assignment, checking for collisions off the paddle and brick
private void moveBall() {
ball.move(vx, vy);
//check for walls
//need to get vx and vy at the point closest to 0 or the other edge
if ((ball.getX() - vx <= 0 && vx < 0 )|| (ball.getX() + vx >= (getWidth() - BALL_RADIUS*2) && vx>0)) {
vx = -vx;
}
//We don't need to check for the bottom wall, since the ball can fall through the wall at that point
if ((ball.getY() - vy <= 0 && vy < 0 )) {
vy = -vy;
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NatashaTheRobot / BreakoutBallPaddleUnstuck
Created November 10, 2011 22:37
This is the solution to prevent the Breakout game ball to get "glued" to the "sticky" paddle for the Stanford CS106A Class
if (collider == paddle) {
/* We need to make sure that the ball only bounces off the top part of the paddle
* and also that it doesn't "stick" to it if different sides of the ball hit the paddle quickly and get the ball "stuck" on the paddle.
* I ran "println ("vx: " + vx + ", vy: " + vy + ", ballX: " + ball.getX() + ", ballY: " +ball.getY());"
* and found that the ball.getY() changes by 4 every time, instead of 1,
* so it never reaches exactly the the height at which the ball hits the paddle (paddle height + ball height),
* therefore, I estimate the point to be greater or equal to the height at which the ball hits the paddle,
* but less than the height where the ball hits the paddle minus 4.
*/
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NatashaTheRobot / HangmanLexicon
Created November 17, 2011 22:50
This is the solution for part 3 of the Stanford CS106A Hangman Game, the HangmanLexicon Solution
/*
* File: HangmanLexicon.java
* -------------------------
* This file contains a stub implementation of the HangmanLexicon
* class that you will reimplement for Part III of the assignment.
*/
import acm.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
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NatashaTheRobot / YahtzeeCheckCategory
Created November 23, 2011 20:46
This is the solution to Stanford CS106A YahtzeeMagicStub checkCategory replacement method
/* Pre-condition: The player has finished rolling the dice and selects a category.
* This method returns true if the selected category matches
* to the actual category correctly, and false if it does not match. */
private boolean checkCategory(int[] dice, int category) {
boolean categoryMatch = false;
if(category >= ONES && category <= SIXES || category == CHANCE) {
categoryMatch = true;
}
else {
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NatashaTheRobot / timeformattingRuby
Created December 12, 2011 19:10
Format Time To Today At Midnight GMT In Ruby
require 'time'
#convert today's time to a string
today = Time.now.to_s # => "Mon Dec 12 10:52:45 -0800 2011"
#replace the hours:minutes:seconds and time-zone to the time and time zone that you need
today[11, 14] = "00:00:00 +0000" # => "Mon Dec 12 00:00:00 +0000 2011"
#convert the time string back into time format
Time.parse(today) # => Sun Dec 11 16:00:00 -0800 2011 - The time is adjusted for my time-zone (-0800), but it is equivalent to midnight in GMT time (Mon Dec 12 00:00:00 +0000 2011)
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NatashaTheRobot / dictionary.html
Created June 13, 2012 02:23
Working with Javascript Hashes
<script>
var english = {
house: "A building for human habitation",
tree:"A woody perennial plant",
street: "A public road in a city or town"
};
var americanEnglish = Object.create(english, {
elevator: "A platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different floors or levels",
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NatashaTheRobot / typhoeus.rb
Created June 20, 2012 21:21
Twitter API Example
#https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/search
require 'Typhoeus'
require 'JSON'
url = 'http://api.twitter.com/search.json?q=dev+bootcamp&rpp=5&include_entities=true&result_type=mixed'
response = Typhoeus::Request.get(url)
p all_tweets = JSON.parse(response.body)
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NatashaTheRobot / gameoflife.html
Created July 21, 2012 04:18
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang='en'>
<head>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script type=text/javascript src="/game.js"></script>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="game.css">
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
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NatashaTheRobot / psql
Created July 21, 2012 17:05 — forked from rubyonrailstutor/psql
psql code
development:
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
database: url_development
pool: 5
username: jd
password:
host: localhost
port: 5432