Bit of Thursday fun.....

[LiamH]

Mines a bit like DT2's, just using an extra else if in the original if.

 

 

Edit, okay its a LOT like DT2's lol

Edited June 14, 2012 by LiamH

[sonofsanta]

Annoyingly this doesn't seem to work in IE8, with or without the Smoothwall, so students can't use it as a ten minute muck about at the end of a lesson - anyone else had problems with that/found a way around it that doesn't involve me pushing a Chrome MSI out especially for this?

[tom_newton]

It's a shame there isn't a second "level" as someone pointed out - because some solutions work for certain classes of maze, and some are general. I don't believe any of the simple ones we have created here are fully general (is the left wall follower general for all mazes?) - it would be fun to find out

[LiamH]

@sonofsanta

 

Worked in firefox here, we have a portable network install that the kids used to have a play.

[sonofsanta]

@sonofsanta

 

Worked in firefox here, we have a portable network install that the kids used to have a play.

 

Yeah it worked fine in my FireFox, but the rest of the computers around school only have IE, and I'm not going to faff about pushing out new software just for this at the moment - too many more important things to do, unfortunately (not that you'd know from the time I spent playing with this, but still)

 

If there's a way of getting it to work in IE8, lovely, if not, it may have to wait for IE9/Chrome in September.

[mac_shinobi]

Yeah it worked fine in my FireFox, but the rest of the computers around school only have IE, and I'm not going to faff about pushing out new software just for this at the moment - too many more important things to do, unfortunately (not that you'd know from the time I spent playing with this, but still)

 

If there's a way of getting it to work in IE8, lovely, if not, it may have to wait for IE9/Chrome in September.

 

1 * USB Memory Stick

1 * Copy of firefox portable ( portableapps.com )

1 * Another computer with usb slot

 

Insert memory stick, run firefox portable with relevant proxy settings --> go to site --> Should work

[tom_newton]

Maze solving algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia <-- my solution is a "left/right hand algorithm" - to solve a harder maze, it could be added to to use the "pledge" algorithm. Sadly the constructs don't exist in this demo (but do in the generic blockly language) to write "pledge", and nor is it needed, nor any quicker for this maze.

[apeo]

Doesnt seem to work in IE 9 either, just used portable firefox from PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives

 

Coming up with a solution for all maps would be interesting.

 

EDIT: LOL in the time I was talking to someone and posting, the above 2 posts were posted.

Edited June 14, 2012 by apeo

[Steve21]

while (!false) {
 if (Maze.isWall(1)) {
   Maze.move(0, "tm-5-ao8");
 }
 Maze.turn(0, "aumqks.p");
 Maze.move(0, "idfl:jmi");
 if (Maze.isWall(1)) {
   Maze.move(0, "xeis7::x");
 }
 Maze.checkTimeout("t3e_.m_n");
}

 

Is mine He just sticks to left and runs around! But gets there eventually Little smarter than normal, but not brilliant. Wish there were more maps

 

Steve

[DT2]

Annoyingly this doesn't seem to work in IE8, with or without the Smoothwall, so students can't use it as a ten minute muck about at the end of a lesson - anyone else had problems with that/found a way around it that doesn't involve me pushing a Chrome MSI out especially for this?

You should be able to drop into auth bypass/whitelist and it'll work

[LiamH]

Yeah it worked fine in my FireFox, but the rest of the computers around school only have IE, and I'm not going to faff about pushing out new software just for this at the moment - too many more important things to do, unfortunately (not that you'd know from the time I spent playing with this, but still)

 

If there's a way of getting it to work in IE8, lovely, if not, it may have to wait for IE9/Chrome in September.

 

Ah, i meant the portable firefox + network share (we have it on our programs drive) = nice emergency browser.

 

Just be aware that any passwords saved are saved to the network drive...

[sonofsanta]

You should be able to drop into auth bypass/whitelist and it'll work

 

I think it's a problem with IE8's DOM, with the proxy disabled it still whinges that "Object doesn't support this property or method".

 

Ah well, 'tis not that big an issue... if the IT teacher would like it sooner rather than later I can set up Firefox in AppShared, I'll not worry too much otherwise. Cheers all.