Comments on: When is a Baked Good a Cookie? https://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2017/12/18/when-is-a-baked-good-a-cookie/?s_tid=feedtopost Loren Shure is interested in the design of the MATLAB language. She is an application engineer and writes here about MATLAB programming and related topics. Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:45:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Harald Hentschke https://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2017/12/18/when-is-a-baked-good-a-cookie/#comment-46880 Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:45:21 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/?p=2488#comment-46880 Many years ago I implemented an audio-enhanced version of the card game popularly known as ‘Memory’ (aka ‘Pairs’, or ‘Concentration’): a large figure window opens up and initially displays 2*n magenta rectangles (‘cards’), each of them being associated with a sound snippet (characteristic of our lab) and occluding graphs of the time series and frequency power spectrum of that sound snippet. When the user clicks on a rectangle, the sound is played and the rectangle made invisible, revealing the graphs. The player’s task is to find matching pairs. Upon success, the matching pair of cards remain ‘open’ (rectangle invisible, graphs visible), otherwise they are ‘closed’ again. Primarily a birthday present back then, it also served me to rehearse the basics of GUI programming outside the GUIDE framework. I’m considering tailoring it to kids in terms of sounds (think crunching cookie etc.) and licenses (make it a standalone application). Deploying code as standalone applications may soon become relevant for my work, so I’m happy to rehearse & play.

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