# Incentivizing Good Behavior with the Wolfram Cloud

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 I had such luck using the Wolfram Language to help my son crack a forgotten lock combination, I've been trying to find other ways to incorporate little programming demonstrations/projects into daily household life. I won't go into the details, but my wife and I just made an arrangement with our daughter  she gets a star or point each time she does a certain thing that she doesn't particularly like to do, and if she gets x number of points, she gets a small reward that we've agreed on in advance. Typical incentivizing of good behavior... but the thing we're awarding points for could happen at a variety of times and locations, and in situations where either my wife or I might be present. So how do we ensure that two forgetful parents accurately track these events? It occurred to me that I could probably whip something up in just a few lines of Wolfram Language code that would fit the bill.I need some simple persistent storage for tracking points, so let's create a Databin: bin = CreateDatabin[] Out[301]= Databin["gx61vKJi"] All I need to do is add (and sometimes, perhaps, subtract) values, so I don't need much of a schema for the data. Let's just initialize the Databin with a value of 0: DatabinAdd[bin, 0] Then I need a simple function to modify the Databin and show some visualization of progress. This one will take a number of points, add them to the last value in the Databin, and plot the result (the new "Latest" value) as a HorizontalGauge: pointPlot = Function[val, DatabinAdd[bin, bin["Latest"]["Data"] + val]; HorizontalGauge[bin["Latest"]["Data"], {0, 25}, GaugeMarkers -> Placed[Graphics[Disk[]], "DivisionInterval"], ScaleDivisions -> {5, 5}, ImageSize -> 700]]; Then I make a simple FormPage, which lets me add and remove single points, or simply plot the latest value (by adding 0 points to the latest value): f = FormPage[{"Points" -> <| "Interpreter" -> {"+1" -> 1, "-1" -> -1, "Check progress" -> 0}, "Control" -> PopupMenu|>}, pointPlot[#Points] &, AppearanceRules -> <|"Title" -> "Random Kid Challenge"|>] And then deploy... In[323]:= CloudDeploy[f, Permissions -> "Public"] Out[323]= CloudObject["https://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/8fd763f3-1307-4971-9475-74840fcdd22e"] 
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Posted 4 years ago
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