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COMPARISONS - Documentation
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Files used:- COMPARE.EXE
COMPARE.DAT
COMPARE.DOC (This file)
The game of COMPARISONS is intended to help children with their
understanding of words. In it they are presented with a word which
describes one of three other words shown in comparison to the other
two. Eg. Which one of these words is the LARGEST of these three:-
OCEAN, LAKE, SEA. The answer, of course, is OCEAN. They have to
choose and type in their choice of word.
Each game consists of 10 such questions and they are presented with
their score out of 10.
COMPARISONS is intended to form part of a suite of programs called
WORD GAMES. However it can be run on its own by switching to the
directory COMPARE and typing COMPARE at the > prompt.
The data used by COMPARISONS is held in the ASCII file COMPARE.DAT.
Being a simple ASCII file it can be amended with a word processor
or editor running in the ASCII mode.
The form of the data file is as follows:-
First line contains number of groups of words in the file.
This is followed on the next line by a description word (eg.
LARGEST) followed by the three words with (in this case) the LARGEST
item first (eg. OCEAN) and the SMALLEST last (LAKE). The three words
are then followed by the other description word (in this case
SMALLEST). So the file would read;
LARGEST
OCEAN
SEA
LAKE
SMALLEST
This pattern is the same for each group of words.
You are free to copy and distribute this program either on its own
or with the rest of the programs in the suite. However, please
include this document with the copy:
If you like the program/suite of programs and/or make a copy, it
would be appreciated if you could send a donation of £5.00 to me:
Philip Allwood
19 Barry Road,
Brimington Common,
CHESTERFIELD
Derbyshire
S43 1PX
This will enable and encourage me to continue producing educational
software for the PC. Also, any comments or suggestions would be
most welcome as this feedback is
always useful.