Beginner VEX Excercise Modulo

[LeGalactique]

Hi all,

I am fairly new to VEX and currently on day 12 of joy of vex, I was trying to do this excercise:

"Highlight red all the points where their ptnum can be cleanly divided by 10"

Someone recommended to use modulo and I did find a way to make it work but

honestly I do not entirely understand why it works, if anyone can help me understand this better I would appreciate it.

 

I understand modulo is basically the remainder of a division and that in this case it will loop from 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 through @ptnum.

 

 

int a = @ptnum % 10 ;

if 

(@ptnum = a)

{

@Cd.r = 1;

}

else 

{

@Cd.g = 0;
@Cd.b = 0;
}

Edited June 22, 2019 by LeGalactique

[flcc]

2 hours ago, LeGalactique said:

I understand modulo is basically the remainder of a division and that in this case it will loop from 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 through @ptnum.

There, you've perfectly understood what it's for.
Creating loops from continuous data is the main use of this function.

[LeGalactique]

Hey thanks! So basically when I say:

if

(@ptnum = a)  //I still don't get why this works on my first code.

I was doing things backwards? I mean I can use this to tell Houdini that

all numbers not 0 will be one color, so I should have written:

if

(@ptnum != a)

 

That was the part I didn't catch, it is all based on any number that doesn't have a remainder right?

 

Something like:

 

if

(@ptnum %10 == 0)

{

@Cd = {1,0,0};

}

Edited June 22, 2019 by LeGalactique

[flcc]

All number have a remainder even if its 0.

If you want to better understand what happen make "a" an attribute and check the geometry spreadseet, you will see all the values generated.

i@a  = @ptnum % 10;
if(@a == 0)
{
    @Cd = {1,0,0};
}

Or you also can use the printf function.

[LeGalactique]

17 hours ago, flcc said:

All number have a remainder even if its 0.

If you want to better understand what happen make "a" an attribute and check the geometry spreadseet, you will see all the values generated.

i@a  = @ptnum % 10;
if(@a == 0)
{
    @Cd = {1,0,0};
}

Or you also can use the printf function.

I had done this before but still wasn't getting it, I appreciate your help alot and I think I understood now entirely.

 

What I didn't get was why if I did (@ptnum = a) then I could color all numbers from 1-9 between each 10th increase.

Since I am a beginner I was failing to understand the difference between == equal to and = asign or can be asigned.

Also I was thinking of the modulo remainder and failing to grasp how those values translated to houdini, when you

just see it as a loop and see that the loop is 1-9 then every tenth is 0 or basically nothing and that cannot be assigned

as a value to ptnum hence you can pinpoint that to add a value.

 

This is how I have come to understand it, needed to really know what happened basically.

[flcc]

Cool.
But I would still suggest you to acquire some programming basics elsewhere, because VEX and the graph system adds a layer.
If you are also a beginner in coding, it will be difficult for you to determine the source of errors.
There are many sites to learn a language.
VEX is close to C, but java, or even python can do the trick to learn coding.

[LeGalactique]

Ok will do that, thx!