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You’re right, the handwriting depicting the “SnuffyCode” program is far neater than the handwriting enumerating basic arithmetic on the worksheet. Looks like Le
by MontyCarloHall 5y ago
You’re right, the handwriting depicting the “SnuffyCode” program is far neater than the handwriting enumerating basic arithmetic on the worksheet. Looks like Leo’s dad wrote the “SnuffyCode.” I guess Leo could have been dictating to his dad, but why not just write it himself? If he’s capable of coming up with his own programming language as a third grader, he’s definitely capable of writing ~10 lines of code in it himself. The handwriting on the worksheet is actually really neat for a third grader!
- abrax3141 5y agoI can clear this up, at least a bit, since I was there. (Although I can’t say that I clearly remember every detail.) All the writing on the problem page is definitely Leo’s, and, yes, he wrote the misspelled “NP Complete”, and did (does) know what it means, at least in the sense of a problem that has an easy to check solution, but for which you have to try every possible combination to find them. As for Snuffycode, the writing is obviously mine, and the language is obviously nonsense. (I guess he wrote out the template.) I think that what was happening is that we were talking through an algorithm using a binary selection mechanism (APL-Like, as mentioned). As with the Lisp, I was “typing” but we were talking it through collaboratively. At least that’s my recollection.