{"id":2547,"date":"2012-08-20T17:53:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T05:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2012-08-20T17:57:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T05:57:05","slug":"introduction-to-computer-programming-concepts-by-way-of-practical-examples-1-planting-hedges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=2547","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to computer programming concepts by way of practical examples 1: Planting hedges."},"content":{"rendered":"

(This might make slightly more sense if you look at the individual story, and not the condensed view on the front page… Click here if you like<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Sub PlantHedges<\/p>\n

   Dim HedgesToPlant as hedges = 2
\n   Dim HedgePlants as HoneysuckleBox = 88<\/p>\n

    for HedgesStillToPlant = 0 to HedgesToPlant
\n      Mark out desired hedge line with builders line and rocks
\n      Dig turf out of desired hedge line
\n      Fill hole that we've just dug with compost
\n      Do While HedgePlants > 0 and not at end of hedge trough
\n         dig hole for plant
\n         if big stones in soil pile just dug up
\n            pull out any big stones
\n            put stones in empty plant pot
\n         else
\n            raise eyebrows in surprise
\n         end if
\n         push in HedgePlant
\n         HedgePlants = HedgePlants minus one
\n         put all soil just dug out of hole back around plant
\n         move 25cm along row
\n      Loop
\n   next HedgesStillToPlant<\/p>\n

   clean up site so next mow of lawn doesn't fire stones everywhere
\n   sprinkle blood and bone in the hope it keeps the hares away
\n   celebrate completion appropriately
\n   feel pretty weary and go watch rugby highlights to recover<\/p>\n

End Sub<\/code><\/p>\n

And that pretty much sums up our fun-day Sunday! Hope you can work out just how much fun we had in the cold, grey day. But at least that’s another 88 shrubs\/trees planted. Just the last 100 of yet another size and shape to go. They’re going to follow a similar pattern though, I suspect. Good job we’ve got the perfect algorithm sorted now! <\/p>\n

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Let’s just hope we have the same level of assistance (i.e. sleeping) from munchkin when we’re planting the next instalment.<\/p>\n

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(This might make slightly more sense if you look at the individual story, and not the condensed view on the front page… Click here if you like.) Sub PlantHedges    Dim HedgesToPlant as hedges = 2    Dim HedgePlants as HoneysuckleBox = 88     for HedgesStillToPlant = 0 to HedgesToPlant       Mark out desired hedge line with builders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}