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Best Method to Make a Quiz

A topic by Salty P. Slug created 54 days ago Views: 379 Replies: 5

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Salty P. Slug54 days ago (1 edit) (+3)

Hello all,

I am embarking on a journey to make a little personality quiz within Decker. The premise of the quiz is, “what legendary 2000s skateboarding video are you?”

I want to present the user with an odd-number of questions, let’s say a total of 5 for theoretical purposes. Preferably, I would like the questions to exist on their own separate cards rather than mashed into one. Each potential result of the quiz would have a corresponding answer in each question, but obviously I would need to track which one was chosen the MOST out of the questions. After they answer the questions, the logic should spit out the video result corresponding to that weighted variable.

What would be the best type of logic/widgets to use for this, or is there a module I could bend to do this easier?

My apologies, I don’t have much of a programming background. I am good with laying out the logic in my head, but I have a hard time getting it on the proverbial page.

Millie Squilly54 days ago(+4)

So basically you'd want to have counters for each result tracking each time they're picked - so like starting them all at 0 and then adding 1 each time the answer is picked. I like to use sliders for storing numeric values with a constrained range - since you know the maximum value possible is 5 as there's only 5 questions in the hypothetical you'd just need a range from 0 to 5. You can put the sliders on a hidden card that the player won't ever see. Then let's say you have a button for each answer on a card and and you can put something like this in the "on click"

cardwithsliders.widgets.slider1.value: cardwithsliders.widgets.slider1.value + 1
go["question2"]

And then at the end you'd just need to check which slider has the highest value and go to an appropriate ending page. There may be a smarter way to do this but it's early here so I'd just go with like a bunch of if statements.

if (cardwithsliders.widgets.slider1.value > cardwithsliders.widgets.slider2.value) & 
   (cardwithsliders.widgets.slider1.value > cardwithsliders.widgets.slider3.value) &
   (cardwithsliders.widgets.slider1.value > cardwithsliders.widgets.slider4.value)
 go["ending1"]
elseif #all the other ways around
end

(apologies if any of my code is wonky, I'm just writing this off the top of my head haha)

You may not have much of a programming background but dabbling in stuff like this is a great way to learn! If you can work out the logic in a "do this then do that" and "if this then we do this, otherwise we do that" then it's just a matter of translating it into the syntax you need

Internet JanitorDeveloper54 days ago(+3)

Supposing you have several sliders on a card:

The easiest way to find the slider with the highest value would be to write a query which sorts the sliders by value (descending) and then extract their names:

extract value..name orderby value..value desc from likesDogs,likesCats,likesFish,likesChickens

In the above example, this would yield a list of widget names like so:

("likesChickens","likesDogs","likesFish","likesCats")

The "first" of such a list would be the highest-ranked (with ties naturally broken in order of appearance).

demonview54 days ago(+2)

I really like the slider suggestion. A nice thing about it is that you can go to that card and manipulate the sliders yourself to test your logic, or hop over while going through your quiz to see that the sliders are as you expect.

Here's a card. If you copy this and paste it into a deck, it'll add a new card with three sliders, a personality field, and a grid of tests and results:

%%CRD0{"c":{"name":"home","script":"on quiz do\n on f t do eval[t (\"cat\",\"dog\",\"duck\") dict (cat,dog,duck)..value] end\n p:first extract result where (f@test)..value from logic.value\n personality.text:\"\" fuse \"You \", p\nend","widgets":{"cat":{"type":"slider","size":[100,25],"pos":[80,32],"script":"on change val do\n quiz[]\nend","interval":[0,5],"format":"cat: %f","style":"bar"},"dog":{"type":"slider","size":[100,25],"pos":[80,64],"script":"on change val do\n quiz[]\nend","interval":[0,5],"format":"dog: %f","style":"bar"},"duck":{"type":"slider","size":[100,25],"pos":[80,96],"script":"on change val do\n quiz[]\nend","interval":[0,5],"format":"duck: %f","style":"bar"},"personality":{"type":"field","size":[192,16],"pos":[224,64],"value":"You are an animal hater?!"},"logic":{"type":"grid","size":[448,160],"pos":[32,160],"bycell":1,"format":"ss","value":{"test":["0=cat+dog+duck","(0,0,1)~0=cat,dog,duck","(0,1,0)~0=cat,dog,duck","(0,1,1)~0=cat,dog,duck","(1,0,0)~0=cat,dog,duck","(1,0,1)~0=cat,dog,duck","(1,1,0)~0=cat,dog,duck","15=cat+dog+duck","1"],"result":["are an animal hater?!","only like mammals","only dislike dogs","only like cats","only dislike cats","only like dogs","only like ducks","are a true friend to all creatures","have unexpected tastes! Sorry!"]},"row":6,"col":1}}},"d":{}}

Room for improvement: if you like all the animals just a little, like 1,1,1, then the personality is "You have unexpected tastes! Sorry!". Also, if you change the logic table so that three different tests all pass, then you still only get the first result. You could check the number and do something about ambiguous results like that.

Or, maybe that quiz code is too clever. Here's something else that still uses that logic grid:

on quiz do
 vars.cat:cat.value
 vars.dog:dog.value
 vars.duck:duck.value
 i:0
 while i < count logic.value
  test:logic.value[i].test
  if eval[test vars].value then
   personality.text:"" fuse "You ", logic.value[i].result
   i:count logic.value # stop here
  end
  i:i+1
 end
end

And, here's a totally different way to do it:

%%CRD0{"c":{"name":"card1","script":"on quiz do\n personality.text:\"You have unexpected tastes! Sorry!\"\n (extract value where \"button\"=typeof@value from card.widgets)..event[\"click\"]\nend","widgets":{"cat":{"type":"slider","size":[100,25],"pos":[80,32],"script":"on change val do\n quiz[]\nend","interval":[0,5],"format":"cat: %f","style":"bar"},"dog":{"type":"slider","size":[100,25],"pos":[80,64],"script":"on change val do\n quiz[]\nend","interval":[0,5],"format":"dog: %f","style":"bar"},"duck":{"type":"slider","size":[100,25],"pos":[80,96],"script":"on change val do\n quiz[]\nend","interval":[0,5],"value":5,"format":"duck: %f","style":"bar"},"personality":{"type":"field","size":[192,16],"pos":[224,64],"value":"You only like ducks"},"button1":{"type":"button","size":[96,32],"pos":[32,160],"script":"on click do\n if me.value:0=sum (cat,dog,duck)..value then\n personality.text:\"You're an animal hater?!\"\n end\nend","text":"likes none","style":"check","value":0},"button2":{"type":"button","size":[96,32],"pos":[144,160],"script":"on click do\n if me.value:(1,0,0)~((cat,dog,duck)..value)>0 then\n personality.text:\"You only like cats\"\n end\nend","text":"only cats","style":"check","value":0},"button3":{"type":"button","size":[96,32],"pos":[32,208],"script":"on click do\n if me.value:15=sum (cat,dog,duck)..value then\n personality.text:\"You're a true friend to all creatures\"\n end\nend","text":"loves all","style":"check","value":0},"button4":{"type":"button","size":[96,32],"pos":[144,208],"script":"on click do\n if me.value:(0,1,0)~((cat,dog,duck)..value)>0 then\n personality.text:\"You only like dogs\"\n end\nend","text":"only dogs","style":"check","value":0},"button5":{"type":"button","size":[96,32],"pos":[144,256],"script":"on click do\n if me.value:(0,0,1)~((cat,dog,duck)..value)>0 then\n personality.text:\"You only like ducks\"\n end\nend","text":"only ducks","style":"check","value":1},"button6":{"type":"button","size":[96,32],"pos":[256,160],"script":"on click do\n if me.value:(0,1,1)~((cat,dog,duck)..value)>0 then\n personality.text:\"You only dislike cats\"\n end\nend","text":"all but cats","style":"check","value":0},"button7":{"type":"button","size":[96,32],"pos":[256,208],"script":"on click do\n if me.value:(1,0,1)~((cat,dog,duck)..value)>0 then\n personality.text:\"You only dislike dogs\"\n end\nend","text":"all but dogs","style":"check","value":0},"button8":{"type":"button","size":[96,32],"pos":[256,256],"script":"on click do\n if me.value:(1,1,0)~((cat,dog,duck)..value)>0 then\n personality.text:\"You only like mammals\"\n end\nend","text":"all but ducks","style":"check","value":0}}},"d":{}}

This has the same sliders and personality field, but the 'quiz' just clicks every button on the card. Each button is a checkbox that sets itself to the value of a test and sets the personality if that value is true. This method makes the logic a little harder to see, as it's in each individual button, but when messing with sliders you can directly see what tests succeed or not, and with meaningful button names you could have other cards perform logic based on what's checked so far in the quiz

AᵈᵈᵃᵐMᵃᵈᵈ47 days ago

I got nothing for you code-wise but if CKY2k isn’t on that list, I’m spending the rest of 2025 trying to cancel you.

A.C. Danvers47 days ago(+1)

There's a "what job are you" quiz in RevInc, and the deck isn't locked, so you can plunder that for ideas if you like: https://annarcana.itch.io/revolution-inc

The short version is I just have a bunch of question widgets, and then a script in the "Calculate!" button polls all those widgets to generate a score for each job based on some simple math.