Programming Loops

Thank you for taking a look at my science fair project Programming Loops. I started this project when I was in 8th grade one night as a spur-of-the-moment kind of thing. It turned out that it met the requirements of the yearly science fair project. I became hooked on the loops that I made with this project and brought it all the way through my school's science fair competition, to the Minnesota Saint Paul regional science fair and finally to the Minnesota State competition. Even though I didn't win any prizes with my project at the final science fair, I still am glad I had a chance to participate in those events. It was a magnificent experience. I made many memories and made good friends. I thank everyone who was involved with Programming Loops, my teachers, my (many) judges, my friends (who proof read) and of course my parents who cheered me on.

The code that I wrote for Programming Loops wasn't on par with what I could've written just a year later and due to the inadequacies of that code, I have removed the code from this website. I had programmed in various languages like VB.net, C#, J# (back when it still existed), C++, PHP and Python. If for some reason you're interested in coding some fancy loops in a bunch of languages, let me know. One of my biggest limitations was the ability to run on Windows and complied code complications. The data yielded by the project cannot be considered enough to arrive at a conclusion of which language can execute it's loops fastest. Extensive looping (millions or billions) must be run and additionally multiple types must be used as trials (like for, while, do-while, backwards, stepping, condition, etc) and of course, it must run on a hefty number of computers.

As a closing, in the latter part of 2008, I created what possibly could be one of the greatest loops ever. I created a simulation War Game. War Game as in the game called war with cards. It is programmed in Java (at the time of the project I did not know) and about 25kb with a multitude of extendability. I plan to release the code in 2009 as a final tribute to Programming Loops. I've run about a billion loops at the time of this writing.

Once again, thank you for your interest in my retired project, Programming Loops. If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to shoot me an email. You can also stop by my blog and leave a comment.