Quote from: camerongray on January 26, 2016, 06:57:19 PM

I just thought that rather than giving you a low rating it would be more useful if I were to explain how you could improve it.

If you want to just learn about encryption and stuff that's great but you'd be best to avoid using it in the context of passwords and instead make a thing to encryot messages/files or something which would be both more useful and avoid the whole confusion of using the wrong methods for HANDING passwords. DaveLembke on here recently built a thing to encryot messages over in the programming section, why not try something like that?

I'd also still stand by my recommendation that you are really pushing batch to its limits and this is essentially making your job harder for no real reason. Why not try something like Python which would be more useful, easier to build cool stuff with, better supported for if you need help and makes for much easier to read code? How about you go and try some of the Python tutorial series over on https://www.codecademy.com/ and see how you get on? No harm in trying it! You clearly have potential but Batch makes it really hard to exploit it! Come think of it, when I was younger I remember playing about with batch files and thinking they were really cool but it wasn't until I moved on to Visual Basic (not that I'd USE VB nowadays!) that I realised what programming was all about and when I was able to start building much cooler stuff!

For context I volintarily help run/mentor at a weekly programming CLUB for people around your AGE. People quite often start off on Python as their first language and very quickly they are building really cool and complicated things including basic message encryption type stuff. There is also an absolute tonne of documentation and help out there for Python should you need it.

I'm going to spend a fair bit of time here writing an explanation so I'd appreciate it if you read it in full.

Instead of batch, Zack should use his ability with Visual Basic. By using Visual Basic you can make programs that are very good and fast.