Monthly Archives: July 2018

‘SNAKE EYES’ [Dice Game]

'Snake Eyes' dice game in action.

A ‘Snake Eyes’ dice game: select your stake – £1, £2, £10, or £1000 – and roll the dice! Random numbers are retrieved from https://www.random.org/clients/http/.

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PHP Date/Time Function Quiz 2: DateTime::setISODate(); DateTime::modify(); DateTime::getOffset(); date_parse_from_format(); date_parse(); DateTime::sub(); date_sun_info(); date_sunrise(); date_sunset(); DateTime::setTime(); and DateTime::getTimestamp().

First four rows of the PHP Date/Time Function Mini-Quiz 2, sized for mobile viewing.

This post serves as a reference point for 11 PHP date/time functions: DateTime::setISODate(); DateTime::modify(); DateTime::getOffset(); date_parse_from_format(); date_parse(); DateTime::sub(); date_sun_info(); date_sunrise(); date_sunset(); DateTime::setTime(); and DateTime::getTimestamp(). Users can also click a ‘RANDOMIZE’ button, whereupon all the function descriptions, function syntaxes, and function return values are randomized. The user can then rearrange the table cells correctly (thus completing the quiz) or click an ‘AUTO COMPLETE’ button (following further optional manual randomization) and watch the computer complete the quiz itself! The computer completes the quiz at a speed that the human eye can follow, thus aiding learning.

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PHP Date/Time Function Quiz: checkdate(); date_add(); date_create_from_format(); date_date_set(); date_default_timezone_get(); date_default_timezone_set(); date_diff(); date_format(); date_get_last_errors(); DateInterval::createFromDateString(); and DateInterval::format().

First two rows of the PHP DateTime Function Mini-Quiz 1, sized for desktop viewing.

This post serves as a reference point for 11 PHP date/time functions: checkdate(); date_add(); date_create_from_format(); date_date_set(); date_default_timezone_get(); date_default_timezone_set(); date_diff(); date_format(); date_get_last_errors(); DateInterval::createFromDateString(); and DateInterval::format(). Users can also click a ‘RANDOMIZE’ button, whereupon all the function descriptions, function syntaxes, and function return values are randomized. The user can then rearrange the table cells correctly (thus completing the quiz) or click an ‘AUTO COMPLETE’ button (following further optional manual randomization) and watch the computer complete the quiz itself! The computer completes the quiz at a speed that the human eye can follow, thus aiding learning.

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