-- your questions
local questions = {
"What color hair do you have?",
"What color teeth do you have?",
"What is your friend's name?",
"What is your mother's name?",
"What is your dad's name?"
}
-- your corresponding answers
-- the first question will have the first answer.
local answers = {
"Black",
"White",
"Bob",
"Rebecca",
"Dave"
}
-- asks the user if they wanna start.
print 'Would you like to begin?'
-- this is the complicated part. read() returns whatever the user types.
-- it then makes all of the letters in the input lowercase, and checks for the first letter only.
-- it will continue if the user has input "YES", "yes", or "Yes please"
if read():lower():sub(1,1) == 'y' then
print 'Let us begin then.'
sleep(1)
else
print 'Alright, never mind.'
sleep(1)
os.reboot()
end
-- start the loop of questioning
local num = 1
local result = true
-- keep going over this loop while the question number is less than or equal to
-- the number of questions.
-- in this case, it stops going at 6.
while num <= #question do
-- clear the screen in preparation for the next question.
term.clear()
-- using the parallel API to count down and take user input at the same time.
parallel.waitForAny(
-- this targets the first line of the console, and prints the question and time there
function()
for time=8, 1, -1 do
term.setCursorPos(1,1)
print(questions[num]..' (Time: '..time..')')
sleep(1)
end
result = false
end
-- at the end of this counting cycle, it'll skip the user input
-- because of "wait for any"
,
-- this targets the second line, and takes user input there
-- so that it doesn't interfere with the first line.
function()
term.setCursorPos(1,2)
-- checking for case insensative answers
-- lowercasing both all of the answer and all of the input
local input = read():lower()
if input ~= answers[num]:lower() then
result = false
end
end
-- at the end of this, it skips the timer because of "wait for any"
)
-- our result variable is what tells us if the user has ran out of time,
-- or has answered incorrectly. if it is false, get us out of the loop and
-- don't ask any more questions.
if not result then break end
-- otherwise, keep doing to the next question.
num = num + 1
end
-- clear the screen again to print the result of the questioning
term.clear()
term.setCursorPos(1,1)
-- if nothing went wrong and the result variable was never set to false
-- open the door for us :D/>/>
if result then
print 'Good job.'
rs.setOutput('right', true) -- change this to the side your door is on, of course.
sleep(5)
rs.setOutput('right', false) -- same here
-- if the variable is false, just reboot the system.
else
print 'Wrong.'
sleep(1)
os.reboot()
end
If someone brings up the point of how "newbies aren't looking for efficiency", we're writing the program for him anyway so it doesn't really matter.
EDIT: In retrospect, I didn't really shorten it that much :S
