Papa's Painter 1.0



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[Description]:
This is version 1.0 of Papa's Painter for the Casio Prizm.
It's version 1.0, because there can definitely be some improvements made.
This is the first release version, because it's basically, fully functional.
There's still plenty of room for improvement though.

[Controls]:

1-9:
Press the buttons 1 to 9 to change the shape of your paintbrush.
1 is the eraser, use it to clear up spaces.

DEL:
Only useable while in eraser mode. Clears the whole screen.

F1-F6:
Use the buttons F1-F6 to change colors.
Not useable in eraser mode, cause, no point to it.

EXE:
You'll only use this button to get pass the home screen.
Press it to continue, from the home screen.

Arrow Keys:
Use this to move around the paintbrush.

That's pretty much it. Have fun using the program, and you can also look at the code to learn from it.
It's pretty basic stuff though, the only things that are worth noting to look at, is everything up leading
up to While T=3. Everything before "While T=3" is original. The point "While T=3" and after, it's all just
copies of the whole "While T=2" section, so if you look at that section, you'll understand it all.

Also, another thing worth noting; it's laggy on the calculator if your code goes above like 3000 bytes. This
program is 5000 bytes, so it's really laggy to browse the code on the calculator.

Here you are saying you'll do this, you'll do that, you're gonna do this, you wanna be the best, you wanna cure cancer, you wanna go to the moon, you wanna touch the bottom of the ocean, whatever your dream is, how come it doesn't come true? Ever?

It's honestly because you don't actually mean what you say. Let's say you want to become the best in your school and get straight A's and whatnot, the reason you don't become the best in the school and the reason why you don't get straight A's is because you don't actually want to. You say you want to, but you don't mean it.

If you wanted to be the best so badly, you would have done something about it. You would study all day, all night, you would barely have time to hang out with friends, but you would be the best in your school. Let's face it, these "gifted" students, these "prodigies" etc, don't exist. There's no student in the world that got straight A's (in high school at least), without practice. Anything related to the subject counts as practice, whether it be homework or studying. People are better than you at certain things because they spent more time doing it, and have more experience than you.

I remember my first computer class I ever took. People called me a computer prodigy, and people still do because they just don't know any better, but I've actually had years of experience using the computer before I took that class. So I knew every single thing the teacher was teaching and the new material she taught us seeped into my head a lot more easily than my mates because I've had so much more experience than them and could relate it to other things I've learned and done. The same goes with my friend, he's the best person in math I ever met. Literally, people call him a math genius everyday, he's gotten 100s on every math test, he does problems in less than a second, new material to him is cake. But I know him well, his secret? He spends a lot of time studying his courses.

Same goes with Terence Tao, he's considered the smartest man in mathematics alive today. He 99th percentiled on the Math SAT, when he was 8. He got a PhD at age of 20. He says however that he is no one special, he just spent a lot of time on math as a kid. That's all he did, math, math, math. When he was 2, his parents forced math down his throat, every hour of every day, his mother being a mathematician herself. Look at where that got him, he's the BEST in the WORLD!!!

Same goes for every "talented" person in the world today. The William sisters have spent their whole childhood forced by their father to play tennis with baseball bats, aiming at targets the father put out. In an experiment to prove that talent doesn't exist, a father trained all his daughters in playing chess. Susan, Judit and Sofia Polgar all became chess Grand Masters and the top women chess players in the world, I think even becoming the best chess players overall. All this, during a time ignorant men thought women could never play chess well, because they're minds are not adjusted enough for it.

The IQ test is also something that doesn't make sense, and I don't understand why it is still around today. The creator of the IQ test says  

"The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured."
— Alfred Binet, The creator of the IQ tests, 1905

I've heard people say, I've seen comments posted, etc, that a person would not be able to complete a task because their IQ was not high enough. I hate, completely detest it when people say that. I honestly hate nothing more in the world than how the word "Talent" "prodigy" "IQ test" and relating words are used. The main reason people say that someone is talented is when someone is YOUNG and does an incredible feat, normally done by adults. But it's not that impressive if you take a 25 year old that does the same thing. Even if they have the same experience in the activity. Adults will actually have the advantage and learn faster, since they have lived longer and experienced more.

There are only a few things that interest a person, and if academics is not one of them, even if the person says he wants to become the best in the school, he will never become the best. Unless that person takes up an interest in academics. And if he has disliked it since he was a child, he will most likely continue his habit of hating academics.

However, you find that you are more exceptional than others at the things you LOVE doing. If you LOVE doing something so much, you will do it, all the time. And you will do it, without even thinking about it. You will love doing it. You will enjoy doing it so much you would PAY MONEY to do it. Like talking to friends, I think many people love that activity a lot. So they'll do it all the time without knowing they're "practicing" and "gaining experience." The people that socialize the most leave the others behind, which is why there are some very shy people, they don't have experience in talking to people.

Geniuses are not born, they're made. Never forget that. No matter how old you get, you can always become the best at the thing you love to do. If you love an activity so much, you'll do it, if you don't, you won't. That's all there is.

After reading what I just wrote, I am able to narrow down the things that I love to do, and I can notice that if I say I want to be the best in academics, that I don't really mean it. Just remember my lesson, it's one of the most important things you will learn in your life. There's no such thing as talent. There's no such thing as a prodigy. If you still believe that there is such thing, and that the IQ test is awesome and true, then go ahead living life that way. But you'll never improve in anything. There was a research done, people that believed that "skill" existed, but not talent, did better at new activities than the people that believed "talent" existed, because the people with the talent mindset thought they had no talent for it, and sucked. However, even today, I think the majority, or maybe just the COUNTRY (EVERY SINGLE PERSON I HAVE MET!!!!!!), believe that talent exists. So I hope this has helped you out in some way, I just had to post this somewhere, so I posted it here. I made this up on the spot when the idea came to my head to write about the thing that I hated the most in the whole world, and connected it with the thing I love the most in the world, skill.

I have not seen this anywhere else, and I'm not sure if you guys even know of it. But recently, Google started a science fair competition called the Google Science Fair.



Basically, it is not like the science fairs we have in school, it is more like the science fair in which you have to create a project about something that is relevant to our modern world. Something involving calculators perhaps? Anyway, the top prizes are amazing. These are what the top 15 finalists receive:

A Scholarship from Google

A $25,000 scholarship, split equally between team members should a team win this prize. This scholarship is intended to be used towards the finalists’ further education.
A Once in a Lifetime Experience

The Finalists will have second and third choice by random selection of one of the remaining experiences at one of the following partner organizations: CERN, Google, the LEGO Group, or Scientific American. Learn more.
A Personalised LEGO Prize

A personal LEGO color mosaic (one for each team member, to build her/himself) and 1 personal, exclusive LEGO box - specially made for the occasion
Digital Access to Scientific American archives for their school

Digital access for the finalists' schools for a year. This prize is valid up to 12 months from winning the prize on 11 July 2011.

A LEGO Goodie Bag including:

    * A LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 set
    * 2 - 4 HiTechnic sensors (endorsed 3rd party accessory sensors - totalling 10 different sensors!)
    * 1 Codatex RFID sensor with tags (endorsed 3rd party sensors)
    * 1 LEGO TECHNIC set (highest pricepoint in 2011 1HY assortment)

A Google Goodie Bag including:

    * A Google Chrome Notebook
    * An Android phone

Scientific American subscription

    * A subscription to Scientific American magazine for 12 months.

I think that is at least $50,000 in total value. Plus, don't forget that you can pretty much get into any college if you're in the top 15. These aren't even the grand finalist prizes, you can find more information on it by going here: <a href="http://www.google.com/sciencefair"> Google Science Fair </a>

The rules are:
- You have to be aged 13-18
- You have to submit a video or PPT presentation of your project (or both)
- Teams of up to 3 people

This is a worldwide competition, and I am definitely entering. So far I have contacted my smartest friends and they don't want to enter. What the heck?!?! Maybe if you want to work with someone else over the internet, you can meet them here.

Post awesome, weird, cool, random youtube videos here that we can all enjoy.

I'll start:

Check out this cool video of 100 years of history in 2 minutes!!!