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I am horrendous at programming/coding and just picked it up as a hobby to create twitter bots long ago (when the API was open. smdh) -- but one thing I made that
The most "elegant" (in theory) thing I created, and am still proud of despite its abject failure:
Was teaching classes online to European students during late covid (lockdowns in some places were freaky long) and they insisted on using a horrendous, university-approved zoom-knockoff that couldn't do basic things like attendance. Wanted to make a simple script that could copy and paste page content to do attendance, track participation in group settings, etc., but make it minimal as possible and pluggable into excel where other student records were. Problem was that there was redundant content, the page layout varied a lot, and the page changed through the session & it required copying/pasting sometimes more than once as the lecture went on -- all of this required more script than I wanted.
At the time, I got really interested in Gödel numbering thanks to a friend, so made this simple script that assigned prime-numbers to strings, multiplied everything in the copied text to take care of redundancies, then it was basic division -- unfortunately it turns out that excel has maximum numeric magnitude & I needed a super computer.
Worked in very small classes w/little activity & holds-up in theory!
I am horrendous at programming/coding and just picked it up as a hobby to create twitter bots long ago (when the API was open. smdh) -- but one thing I made that
The most "elegant" (in theory) thing I created, and am still proud of despite its abject failure:
Was teaching classes online to European students during late covid (lockdowns in some places were freaky long) and they insisted on using a horrendous, university-approved zoom-knockoff that couldn't do basic things like attendance. Wanted to make a simple script that could copy and paste page content to do attendance, track participation in group settings, etc., but make it minimal as possible and pluggable into excel where other student records were. Problem was that there was redundant content, the page layout varied a lot, and the page changed through the session & it required copying/pasting sometimes more than once as the lecture went on -- all of this required more script than I wanted.
At the time, I got really interested in Gödel numbering thanks to a friend, so made this simple script that assigned prime-numbers to strings, multiplied everything in the copied text to take care of redundancies, then it was basic division -- unfortunately it turns out that excel has maximum numeric magnitude & I needed a super computer.
Worked in very small classes w/little activity & holds-up in theory!
