Good programming language to learn?

[Kayne]

Maybe say the idea anyway? Chess might be a bit too hard for me :O

OH, and you guys like to have source files eh...

Any tips, is appreciated, and usually followed by rep

GJ Pyro :>

[Pyromanik]

Ok.

I was going to give you a day or so's grace.



Pyro's Challenge #2:
Take that game you just made (O&X's), and extend it to work on any sized board.
(Obviously superlarge boards will be just supid, but say if you can play anywhere between 3 and 10 length sides...)
This challenge teaches code cleanliness, extensibility and ease of maintenance.

[Bell]

ahh a classic extend the program task, he will be ready to take on uni problems in no time :p

[Pyromanik]

Indeed :>

The cleaner the code, the better you are!
Plus 2D noughts and crosses isn't a hard task. He's done all the game logic...
If he's done it neatly, he'll just have to change a few numbers!

[Kayne]

Wahhh...?

[Pyromanik]

Make your naughts and crosses work on a board of a supplied size (eg 5x5), using the same code you've already written as a base. :>
The board will always be square, so you don't need to worry about accepting 2 numbers, just one.



As a side note... I got an assignment in my second year to implement chess. I never finished it.
I failed that course through my own inaction. Now might be the time to rectify that! :>

[Kayne]

ahh, that's going to be a bit hard.

My code is very messy, as well as specific. Any other projects / ideas that I could try?

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

btw again, Spacemonkey, it seems that if a chess piece kills more than 3 people, then it will blood3 will be dropped when it kills more?

It just picks it randomly.

I updated it to include notation.

[Pyromanik]

ahh, that's going to be a bit hard.

My code is very messy, as well as specific.

That's the point

[Tiwaking!]

Good programming language to learn?

This might be more appropriate for the board:

[Pyromanik]

Tiwa can only move diagonally.

[Pyromanik]

ahh, that's going to be a bit hard.

My code is very messy, as well as specific.

That's the point

I'll help you out. It'll be great. You'll learn heaps, and your next program will be easier to achieve!

For a start:
Dear Kayne, please write more functions.

[Virus.]

I like how Kayne's the pawn.

I'm not a short-lived fanatic. I have an exam, hense have done nothing and berely read the forums.

[Pyromanik]

mmkay. Steam history says otherwise.

[Kayne]

I'll help you out. It'll be great. You'll learn heaps, and your next program will be easier to achieve!

For a start:
Dear Kayne, please write more functions.

Sounds good

If a function is a method, The only reason I didn't use them is because no matter how much I fiddled around with the code, there would always be a syntax errors. That was with the method itself, not when ever I tried to use it (because I never got to use it lol )

[toofast]

A method needs to be outside the main function, but inside the class declaration.

So like

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namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
  static class Program
  {

    /// <summary>
    /// The main entry point for the application.
    /// </summary>
    [STAThread]
    static void Main()
    {
      Application.EnableVisualStyles();
      Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
      Application.Run(new Form1());
    }

    public void method1(int input1, string input2)
    {
      //Do crap
    }
  }
}


Heres a good starting method. Given i have a board of n by n, i want to check if the spot is taken. So i would want a function which takes the position of the spot, and return a bool or int of 1/0 (true/false).

Then make another method, which will be similar to the above, except it places the cross on that spot, and returns nothing (so is of type void).

[Pyromanik]

mmm yeah. A function cannot be inside another function.
Unless you're batshit crazy like javascript.

[Bell]

or lua

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Kayne, you should learn LOLCODE

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HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE
or Brainfuck

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++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++
..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>.
or INTERCAL

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DO ,1 <- #13
PLEASE DO ,1 SUB #1 <- #238
DO ,1 SUB #2 <- #108
DO ,1 SUB #3 <- #112
DO ,1 SUB #4 <- #0
DO ,1 SUB #5 <- #64
DO ,1 SUB #6 <- #194
DO ,1 SUB #7 <- #48
PLEASE DO ,1 SUB #8 <- #22
DO ,1 SUB #9 <- #248
DO ,1 SUB #10 <- #168
DO ,1 SUB #11 <- #24
DO ,1 SUB #12 <- #16
DO ,1 SUB #13 <- #162
PLEASE READ OUT ,1
PLEASE GIVE UP

[AintNoMeInTeam]

mmm yeah. A function cannot be inside another function.
Unless you're batshit crazy like javascript.

or you use lambda expressions/statements in c#

[Speakman]

lolcode ftw

[Pyromanik]

mmm yeah. A function cannot be inside another function.
Unless you're batshit crazy like javascript.

or you use lambda expressions/statements in c#

Or Python.
But no thanks.
Anyway, not true functions.

[AintNoMeInTeam]

not true functions.

yes they are, you need to check your definition of a function.

and they are crazy useful - just look at LINQ.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Lambda expressions are great. Linq is orsome, I use it all the time now, so useful.

[Tiwaking!]

Lambda expressions are great. Linq is orsome, I use it all the time now, so useful.

[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled
programming...]
       -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution