challenge Challenge: The Student Programmer

[camjocotem]

You may know how to code, if you were told to write a simple calculator program to do basic arithmetic always using two numbers you'd say "No problem!"

BUT, in the days of yonder many students would try to Copy & Paste ALL THEIR CODE.

 

So! You now as a well-versed coder, could you throw a calculator program together ONLY BY COPYING AND PASTING?  

 

Rules: 

-Produce a program which add / multiply / subtract / divide 2 numbers together (ideally comprised of functions that achieve each goal)

-Don't use any library/framework explicitly geared towards math (downloading these would basically complete the challenge)

-You must copy a minimum of one line at a time (no taking parts of lines, I mean what do variables even mean anyway?  )

-No UI required, a console output is fine

-Use any language of your choice

 

-Must use a minimum of 5 different sources to stitch your program together

or

-Maximum of 4 lines per source (They don't have to be consecutive)

 

-Bonus points for esoteric languages (I mean it all looks confusing anyway right?)

 

 

Feedback would be nice on rules improvements etc etc

I'm just curious to see how difficult it'd be, would love to make this challenge better

[Origami Cactus]

idk, seems way to easy right now, maybe add a rule that you must use atleast like 10 different sources or something.

 

Right now i would put "Python calculator example" in Google, and would copy the whole code from that.

[camjocotem]

Yeah I suppose that's not a library/framework per se, I'll add that to the rules

[camjocotem]

Oooooooor maybe a maximum number of lines per source?

[TheBean]

can we combine different languages?

 

just add/subtract/multi/div right? 

 

let me give this a try

edit: nope.... just realized how hard it would actually be.

Edited September 11, 2019 by Saksham

[camjocotem]

As long as the result can compile I don't see why you can't mix languages if it just so happens to match the same syntax

(Also I accidentally put delete as one of the operators, thanks for helping me notice haha)

[camjocotem]

9 minutes ago, Saksham said:

can we combine different languages?

 

just add/subtract/multi/div right? 

 

let me give this a try

edit: nope.... just realized how hard it would actually be.

Any suggestions on balancing it? 

I'm trying it myself and feeling myself gravitate towards python since it doesn't use brackets.

Maybe I should ease up on the min/max rules?

[camjocotem]

Here's my attempt

#Taken from https://code4coding.com/python-program-to-add-two-number-using-function/
def add_num(a,b):#function for addition
#Taken from https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/functions-python-tutorial
    return a + b

#Taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37820896/creating-a-multiplying-function-python
def Multiply(num1, num2):
    answer = num1 * num2
    return answer

#Taken from https://www.codexpedia.com/python/python-function-examples/
def divide(a, b):
    return a / b
def substract(a, b):
    return a - b

Divide and subtract felt a bit cheeky to me, I suppose I didn't mention 4 consecutive lines of source, may add that clarification into the rules

[Dat Guy]

Your attempt is not solving the original task to produce a program, @camjocotem - you'd still have to stitch the four methods together.