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[Zach Elko <zachelko@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've altered the way random questions are selected. Now, the list is
randomized once at load up, and then questions are taken out in order. This
gives us random questions each play-through and also ensures that every
question in a set can be seen provided there are enough levels to do so.

As for number of levels, I think 10 solid looking levels is a good goal.
Given that, the number of questions you'd need would be 10 levels x 4
questions per level + 2 for each life they can lose = 42 *questions per-set.
*

The teachers will be able to make their own question sets, and they won't
necessarily abide by this rule, and that's fine. The kids will just see
questions repeated once all questions have been displayed and there are
still levels remaining. However, since we know how many questions are needed
to avoid repeats, I'd prefer that we had 42 questions *per-section in the
Math book.*

This of course only covers Math. An English book is structured differently
in terms of vocab words and such and that will need to be another discussion
all together. For now, focus on getting the math questions done until we
have a conversation regarding how to tackle the English stuff.

Zach J. Elko
Ball State University Unified Technology Support
Certified Hardware & Software Technician


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Andy Elsten <aelsten86@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> alright guys after making some levels and question sets I noticed that BF
> runs every level that we have. Keeping that in mind if we want each question
> to be unique then we need at least 4 times the questions than levels in each
> of the question sets. So if we have 20 levels there hast to be at least 80
> to 100 questions in each set. If this is desirable no big deal I can make
> the question sets bigger.
>
> My main question is, have we given any thought as to how many levels they
> are going to run through each time? I only post this question to get feed
> back on the decision to make the questions sets huge to get more unique
> questions or post a limit on the number of levels for each run to reduce the
> chances to repeat question. Just let me know your thoughts on the topic
>
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