Re: Random Naughts and Crosses, Problem Search
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
Mark Space wrote:
TheBigPJ wrote:
the large comparision if statement, but no one has a suitable
alternative.
Yeah that "if" is just nasty. I think you even missed one victory
condition. I count seven and there should be eight I think. Replace
it with a method that uses a loop to iterate over possible victory
conditions.
Also, consider making board a byte[3][3], reflecting the two-dimensional
geometry of the real board.
Actually, I would replace it with an 2d enum array.
enum Stroke {
EMPTY,
X,
O;
}
Or better yet, use a map instead:
final class Position {
final int x;
final int y;
public Position(int x, int y) {
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
}
public long hashCode() { return x + y * 37; }
public boolean equals(Object o) { return o instanceof Position &&
((Position)o).x == x && ((Position)o).y == y; }
}
Map<Position, Stroke> board;
That would make it easy to iterate over all columns, all rows, and the
two diagonals.
Patricia
Ditto.
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