Talk:Bacon cipher: Difference between revisions
Standardisation supports the Rosetta values of enhanced insight and help for learners. A standard text plus the option of an additional mystery text ?
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: I could see standardizing some aspects of the task. Perhaps requiring a specific text (either to encrypt or to hold the encrypted text or both), for example. Though I could also see it being more interesting with variation being either allowed or specified. But the font aspect is something of a problem - if you seriously wanted font support, you should first implement a Rosetta Code task which involves multiple fonts. But since there's no file upload capability, the only way to see correctness would be to render to html or wiki-markup. So that might be a dead-end. So perhaps for this task we should just standardize on using letter case in place of font? --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 19:36, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
:: Scanning quickly through Rosetta's 3 goals as a kind of checklist
:::# '''"as many different languages as possible"''' – the task is already good in this respect
:::# '''"demonstrate how languages are similar and different"''' – requiring a specific text would make comparison easier and more revealing. (And wouldn't exclude a second text for optionally added mystery :-)
:::# '''"aid a person with a grounding in one approach to a problem in learning another"''' (as above – comparing like with like is a value for the learner) – perhaps also explicitly encourage explanatory comments ? [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 11:55, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
:: +1 on a change to specify the use of upper/lower case to hide the message instead of the font change to make the task easily representable on RC and focus on the other parts of the cipher. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 20:55, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
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By the way, did you mean to say, ''successive alphabetical letters'' (instead of ''characters'')? -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 08:26, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
: I meant skipping (as in carying through without altering), any non a-z in the text used to hide the message. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 09:39, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
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