From: "Thought M." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-04-27T12:27:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Deaf Grandma Program doesn't work right

I just had a go with this and tried for at least an hour before getting 
here. I read a few responses and gave it another go, read some more and 
finally got it. It looks a lot like the previous post but a little 
change here or there, not much though. I noticed my "rand" part with the 
dates is different from everyone elses but it works just how i imagined 
it too. And the assigning of response I picked up from aother person 
that made it easier for me to understand is tucked nicly inside the 
first action as to include it in the looping effect.

puts 'Hi Sweety, it\'s Grandma!'

bye = 0

while bye < 3

if ((response = gets.chomp) == "BYE")
puts "GOOD BYE, SONNY!"
bye = (bye+1)
end

if (response != response.upcase)
puts 'HUH?! SPEAK UP, SONNY!'
bye = 0
end

if (response == response.upcase and response != "BYE")
puts 'NO, NOT SINCE '+(rand(1930..1951)).to_s+'!'
bye = 0
end
end

This sure was a tough one without knowing bout all the functions you 
needed to know. There was a lot left to imagination, like the thing that 
pushed my RUBY into being finished was the "AND" function in my 3rd if 
statement. When ever I would type "BYE" it would also tell me "NO, NOT 
SINCE 19xx! and then also GOOD BYE SONNY!..... I just couldn't figure 
out how to exclude something from the "puts" and it also would make the 
bye value set to 0 when it used both responses cause I set it so if 
"BYE" wasn't used it would reset the value of "BYE" back to zero. All in 
all this excerise was almost easy enough to do it without help or hints 
but not quite. Made me want to know though and pushed me to try really 
hard but I just feel with the info adding up to the "TRY IT OUT" part in 
the pickaxe just didn't stick well enough or just didn't have the parts 
told to you yet? Might just be me but I definately struggled.

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