My 1st HP-41 program. Suggestions?

[Valentin Albillo]

(10-19-2023 12:49 AM)Jeff_Birt Wrote:  My 1st HP-41 program. Suggestions?

There are a number of optimizations which could be made but for a first program it's quite acceptable. The largest optimization would be this:

The 15 lines in your original code highlighted in bold red below:

[...]
"Guess 1-10"
PROMPT ; Type in # then press R/S
X=Y?
GTO 03 ; Correct guess handler
X>Y?
GTO 02 ; X>Y handler
"TOO SMALL" ; **X<Y handler
AVIEW
PSE
PSE
RDROP ; Keep Rand # in Y
GTO 01
LBL 02 ; **X>Y handler
"TOO BIG"
AVIEW
PSE
PSE
RDROP ; Keep Rand # in Y
GTO 01
LBL 03 ; **Correct handler
[...]

... can be replaced by these 8 lines below:

"TOO SMALL"
X>Y?
"TOO BIG"
AVIEW
PSE
PSE
RDROP
GTO 01

for a net savings of 7 lines of code.

Hope it helps.
V.