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C A L H O O N U N I V E R S I T Y # 3 5
Program by Bob Markland
Welcome to your fourth semester at Calhoon University. We are happy to
offer you two new courses: NO IT'S NOT and ORIGINALLY. The first quiz
checks to see if you (along with just about everybody else) have been
mislead by incorrect names of common objects. The second tests your
knowledge of working titles of famous works of literature.
These are all part of our College of Liberal Arts and will help you in
getting along with your neighbors and peers, and may even come in handy
when trying to pick up babes, or dudes...or both, as the case may be.
After all, it IS the College of Liberal Arts.
STUDENT ORIENTATION
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At CALHOON UNIVERSITY each quiz consists of up to 100 questions (25 for
the two on this disk) and offers 4 multiple-choice answers. Use CRSR
DOWN/UP to highlight the correct answer and press RETURN to enter your
choice. Or sit back in your favorite chair and use a joystick in port 2.
Select and enter your choice with DOWN, UP, and FIRE.
Questions are presented in a different random order each time the
program is run to enhance learning value. In addition to the questions and
answers the screen display indicates the number of questions presented, the
previous high score, the point value for the current question and the
cumulative score for the current quiz.
YOUR GRADE
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The scoring system rewards consistently correct answers. The point
value begins at 1. With each correct answer the point value is increased by
1. An incorrect answer resets the point value back to 1. There is no
further penalty for incorrect answers and the quiz continues until all
questions have been answered. The valedictorian will score 1275 points on
50 question quizzes, and 325 on 25 question puzzles.
Following each quiz the Dean's List displays the top 10 students. If
your score qualifies you for honors a cursor appears on the appropriate
line so that you may enter your name. Type from 1 to 10 characters and
press RETURN to record your score.
From the Dean's List you may elect to try another quiz or quit. You may
also quit a quiz in progress by pressing [Q] at the start of any question.
In this case you will be taken to the Dean's List, but are not considered
for honors, regardless of your current score. Your options are: Try a new
quiz, Continue with the quiz in progress, or Drop out of school. When you
drop out of school, the program searches for a LOADSTAR disk in the active
drive. If none is found you are returned to BASIC.
GUEST PROFESSORSHIPS
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Professor emeritus Knees Calhoon is actively recruiting guest
professors. America's schools are suffering from a shortage of good
teachers, and CALHOON UNIVERSITY is no exception. There are two ways to
become a guest professor:
(1) Follow the instructions given below and submit a completed quiz.
(2) If you're not inclined to structure and test a quiz in CALHOON
UNIVERSITY format, submit a hard or disk copy of any word-processed
multiple-choice quiz, clearly indicating which answer possibility is
correct. Preferably, quizzes should be 25 to 100 questions each.
If you would rather just sit back and enjoy the curriculum, but have a
topic that particularly interests you, give Fender some feedback. The most
requested topics will definitely be used in future quizzes.
STRUCTURING A QUIZ
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It's not at all difficult to put together a quiz, whether it's for
submission to LOADSTAR or simply for your own educational or entertainment
purposes. You may find it easiest to load one of the quizzes on this disk
into your word processor and use it as a template, changing each line as
needed.
(1) Use any word processor that allows you to save a PETASCII file in PRG
format. THE WRITE STUFF is recommended.
(2) Begin the file on the first character of the first line with a six-
letter or shorter identifier that ends with a period. This will be the
filename prefix for the "Dean's List" which is unique to each quiz.
(3) The second line will identify you as the author. Use ALL lowercase and
enter:
quiz by: your name, followed by a GREATER THAN sign (>).
(4) The third line must say "Calhoon University". (Note the required use
of the uppercase "C". This distinguishes the file from the C-64 version
which uses "Professor Calhoon" on this line.
(5) Line 4 is the name of the quiz in upper-lower case. You may use as
many lines as you need, but restrict their length to 64 characters.
(6) Follow this with two blank lines.
(7) This is the area for up to 100 questions. Each question consists of 10
lines (no more/no less) in this format:
REMARKS
(not part of the file)
Q-1 ;question number
#a ;correct answer indicator
question line 1 ;
question line 2 ;if line 2 isn't needed use a single asterisk (*)
* ;always put an asterisk on this line
answer a ;
answer b ;
answer c ;
answer d ;
blank line ;separates questions
QUESTION AND ANSWER RESTRICTIONS:
Use all lowercase for the questions and answers.
Question lines may be up to 64 characters long.
If you do not need question line 2, enter a single asterisk (*).
A line with a single asterisk MUST separate the questions from the
answers.
Answers may be up to 22 characters long.
Do not use the number sign (#) except for identifying the correct answer.
Do not use the double quote (") anywhere. If you want a double quote to
appear in your question or answer, use the AT sign (@).
Do not use the less than sign (<) except on the last line of the quiz.
Do not use the greater than sign (>) except at the end of the author line.
You may use the English Pound sign for an underline character in the
question. Use five of them for a reasonable length blank.
(8) End the quiz with a LESS THAN sign (<) on a line by itself. This is
ESSENTIAL! To accommodate quizzes of different lengths the program must
know where each quiz ends.
(9) Save the file as a PETASCII PRG file with a "cu." prefix.
Here are two ways to save your file with TWS.
(1) Write the quiz making sure you have NO reversed codes in the text and
press CTRL-A (for PETASCII mode), then press CTRL-S (for save), delete the
preceding hyphen, enter "cu." then your file's name, or:
(2) Write the quiz and set the margins to lm0 rm16 tm0 bm0. Then go to the
print menu and "Print to disk". At the filename prompt enter
"cu.filename,p,w" without the quotes.
Here is a short sample of how a quiz file might look:
tvt1.
quiz by: bob markland>
Calhoon University Television
Trivia 101
Q-1
#d
name the occupation of jackie gleason as ralph kramden, on the
honeymooners.
*
sewer worker
longshoreman
bartender
bus driver
Q-2
#b
the red skelton show frequently featured a character named \\\\\.
*
dudley doright
freddy freeloader
manny the moocher
deadbeat dan
Once your quiz file, with a "cu." prefix has been saved to a disk
containing the version of CALHOON UNIVERSITY found on this issue, the file
requester will recognize it. To test your quiz, select it from the menu and
go through all of the questions. Look for typos or anything that corrupts
the screen or format. Go back and edit the quiz, as necessary, then test
again.
The five most common problem areas are:
Format errors in the header (lines 1-4).
Missing carriage returns at the end of a question or answer line.
Too many or too few lines for each question.
Use of prohibited characters or improper use of uppercase characters.
Lines exceeding 64 characters for questions or 22 characters for answers.
You may prefer to simply test your knowledge with CALHOON UNIVERSITY's
course offering and perhaps say to yourself along the way, "I never knew
that." On the other hand, LOADSTAR subscribers are a diverse lot. So if you
have an interest or special knowledge in almost any subject area this is a
perfect forum in which to share it.
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