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102 lines
3.7 KiB
Ruby
102 lines
3.7 KiB
Ruby
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#
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# Buzzword Generator
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#
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# From: BASIC Computer Games (1978)
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# Edited by David H. Ahl
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#
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# "This program is an invaluable aid for preparing speeches and
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# briefings about education technology. This buzzword generator
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# provides sets of three highly-acceptable words to work into your
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# material. Your audience will never know that the phrases don't
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# really mean much of anything because they sound so great! Full
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# instructions for running are given in the program.
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#
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# "This version of Buzzword was written by David Ahl."
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#
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#
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# Ruby port by Leslie Viljoen, 2021
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#
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WORDS = [["Ability", "Basal", "Behavioral", "Child-centered",
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"Differentiated", "Discovery", "Flexible", "Heterogeneous",
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"Homogenous", "Manipulative", "Modular", "Tavistock",
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"Individualized"],
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["learning", "evaluative", "objective", "cognitive",
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"enrichment", "scheduling", "humanistic", "integrated",
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"non-graded", "training", "vertical age", "motivational",
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"creative"] ,
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["grouping", "modification", "accountability", "process",
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"core curriculum", "algorithm", "performance",
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"reinforcement", "open classroom", "resource", "structure",
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"facility","environment"]]
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# Display intro text
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puts "\n Buzzword Generator"
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puts "Creative Computing Morristown, New Jersey"
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puts "\n\n"
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puts "This program prints highly acceptable phrases in"
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puts "'educator-speak' that you can work into reports"
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puts "and speeches. Whenever a question mark is printed,"
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puts "type a 'Y' for another phrase or 'N' to quit."
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puts "\n\nHere's the first phrase:"
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loop do
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phrase = []
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prefix, body, postfix = WORDS
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phrase << prefix[rand(prefix.length)]
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phrase << body[rand(body.length)]
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phrase << postfix[rand(postfix.length)]
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puts phrase.join(' ')
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puts "\n"
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print "?"
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response = gets
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break unless response.upcase.start_with?('Y')
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end
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puts "Come back when you need help with another report!\n"
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######################################################################
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#
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# Porting Notes
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#
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# The original program stored all 39 words in one array, then
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# built the buzzword phrases by randomly sampling from each of the
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# three regions of the array (1-13, 14-26, and 27-39).
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#
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# Instead, we're storing the words for each section in three
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# separate arrays. That makes it easy to loop through the sections
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# to stitch the phrase together, and it easily accomodates adding
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# (or removing) elements from any section. They don't all need to
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# be the same length.
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#
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# The author of this program (and founder of Creative Computing
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# magazine) first started working at DEC--Digital Equipment
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# Corporation--as a consultant helping the company market its
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# computers as educational products. He later was editor of a DEC
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# newsletter named "EDU" that focused on using computers in an
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# educational setting. No surprise, then, that the buzzwords in
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# this program were targeted towards educators!
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#
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#
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# Ideas for Modifications
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# Try adding more/different words. Better yet, add a third
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# array to the WORDS array to add new sets of words that
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# might pertain to different fields. What would business buzzwords
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# be? Engineering buzzwords? Art/music buzzwords? Let the user
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# choose a field and pick the buzzwords accordingly.
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#
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######################################################################
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