Top three ideas

My first idea to go with my metaphor of losing something is simply - a video.

A video illustrating someone searching for some lost items. I think that this method could be difficult to convey the idea of the boolean condition and the repeating block of code/actions. I could possibly have a map of the path taken making the path a computer like iterative route.

The only costs associated with this short film idea would be getting the help of other people out help me act it out and shoot it, which would probably just require me buying them lunch and dinner for the day. I already have a camera and a computer with editing software to edit the film on.



My second idea is a game. The game would involve the user to try and find something, it would be quite repetitive not exactly the same each time but similar enough to get a feeling of looping around. This could be quite effective as it's interactive and could be quite interesting. It does break the idea of a while loop a bit though as at any time the user could choose to leave without finding the item which changes the boolean condition and break out of the while loop which isn't how the while loops work unless you have a break statement in them.

There wouldn't be any costs involved, but it would take quite a lot of time to create a game which is visually pleasing and interesting enough to interest users initially and then keep them playing the game.


My final idea is a series of posters, Where's Wally-esque. So for example three posters, with Wally or some item in one of the posters. I would have users search for the item, people would search through each poster looking for it, looping around through each poster because I find when I am doing  Where's Wally I end up looking in the same place multiple times before finding him. One of the draw backs to this idea similar to my game idea is that at any time the user could just give up and leave without changing the initial boolean condition of actually finding the item which defeats the purpose and the idea I'm trying to get across.

There would only be the minor cost of the paper as I already have any other materials I would need. However the time I would have to invest would be quite a lot to make it effective enough to have people searching for a while and make it busy like Where's Wally which could take a long time.