From 0120eac02b2725f41e080dd78eea4f1faf819c24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cody Boone Ferguson <53008573+xexyl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 11:35:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add 2013/hou/try.sh

---
 2013/hou/README.md | 15 ++++++---------
 2013/hou/try.sh    | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 thanks-for-help.md |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 2013/hou/try.sh

diff --git a/2013/hou/README.md b/2013/hou/README.md
index cacaf70ac..4e2655cbd 100644
--- a/2013/hou/README.md
+++ b/2013/hou/README.md
@@ -30,17 +30,14 @@ effects should be more or less recognizable when you see 16.
 ## Try:
 
 ```sh
-./hou BIG
-./hou old_default.scene BIG
-./hou otherroom.scene
-./hou otherroom.scene NAIVE
+./try.sh
 ```
 
-Try opening the file and then let the program run a while and every so often
-reopen the file, to see how it changes. The author suggests that you leave the
-program running overnight to see what happens. If however you do not have all
-night :-) then the following JPEG files should show you what happens with some
-of the invocations above:
+Try opening the file noted by the program then let the program run a while and
+every so often reopen the file, to see how it changes. The author suggests that
+you leave the program running overnight to see what happens. If however you do
+not have all night :-) then the following JPEG files should show you what
+happens with some of the invocations above:
 
 ![./hou BIG - Luna](luna.jpg)
 
diff --git a/2013/hou/try.sh b/2013/hou/try.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..d5ef47743
--- /dev/null
+++ b/2013/hou/try.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 2013/hou
+#
+
+# make sure CC is set so that when we do make CC="$CC" it isn't empty. Doing it
+# this way allows us to have the user specify a different compiler in an easy
+# way.
+if [[ -z "$CC" ]]; then
+    CC="cc"
+fi
+
+make CC="$CC" all >/dev/null || exit 1
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
+
+echo "2013/hou menu" 1>&2
+echo 1>&2
+echo "(0) BIG (luna.ppm)" 1>&2
+echo "(1) old_default.scene BIG (old_default.ppm)" 1>&2
+echo "(2) otherroom (otherroom.ppm)" 1>&2
+echo "(3) NAIVE otherroom (otherroom.ppm)" 1>&2
+echo 1>&2
+read -rp "Make your selection (0 - 3, anything else to quit): " mode
+
+case "$mode" in
+    0)  # BIG
+	echo "$ ./hou BIG" 1>&2
+	./hou BIG
+	;;
+    1)  # old_default BIG
+	echo "$ ./hou old_default.scene BIG" 1>&2
+	./hou old_default.scene BIG
+	;;
+    2)  # otherroom
+	echo "$ ./hou otherroom.scene" 1>&2
+	./hou otherroom.scene
+	;;
+    3)  # otherroom NAIVE
+	echo "$ ./hou otherroom.scene NAIVE" 1>&2
+	./hou otherroom.scene NAIVE
+	;;
+    *)	exit 0	
+	;;
+esac
diff --git a/thanks-for-help.md b/thanks-for-help.md
index 4c3c86c59..68ed2718c 100644
--- a/thanks-for-help.md
+++ b/thanks-for-help.md
@@ -4031,6 +4031,8 @@ Further, after the file `2013/hou/doc/example.markdown` was moved to
 [2013/hou/doc/example.md](/2013/hou/doc/example.md) to match the rest of the repo
 this broke `make` which Cody also fixed.
 
+Cody also added the [try.sh](/2013/hou/try.sh) script.
+
 
 ## <a name="2013_mills"></a>[2013/mills](/2013/mills/mills.c) ([README.md)[2013/mills/README.md))