First to 100 Game Program

This one was monumentally more comfortable to write than the lottery program although it uses similar elements. I have a few questions that I will ask about things I can do to make the program smaller, but I am still proud of this program despite its size. The url: https://gist.github.com/7213...

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The Lottery Program

So you may have noticed I haven't posted for a while. Why? The lottery program. Yeah. It was a dreaded horrible beast. I saw there for weeks, really, staring at the lines of code I'd spewed forth, stressing, rewriting, throwing things (okay, not really.) And then I was told to take a break. I did... a long one. It would be just fine if I could just write every program in the book just not this one. It was impossible and a stupid task. But alas, I could not excuse myself from the project so I sat down to it. Ever have one of those moments when...

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Dice Game: Ifs & Loops

I had a little fun with some 'ifs' and 'while loops' with this program. When I first started the program I became somewhat frustrated. I stopped and slept on it. When I came back to the code, it was sooo easy to piece together. The break was a really good idea. The code: count = 0 count2 = 3 guess = 0 while guess <2 || guess >12   puts( 'Pick a number 2-12: ')   guess = gets.chomp.to_i end dieTotal = 0 while dieTotal != guess && count != 3   count = count + 1   count2 = count2 - 1   die1 = rand(6)  ...

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