Thread: Help! Robot Programming

Originally Posted by Adak

You're NOT a Sokoban player!!

You're the only one saying anything about Sokoban. Not the OP. I don't care about what you want to do with the program. You're not the one with the post. If you want to write a Sokoban robot, go ahead, but get out of this thread, because that's not what they're doing.

Originally Posted by Adak

You can work DIRECTLY with the input from the user, and every movement is relative to the current position of the robot, of course.

So what's your point? No, you don't have to use compass directions, but it's easy to think that way. It's also easy to program it that way. No, you don't need to name your directions, but it's easier to do so.

Originally Posted by Adak

Perhaps I'm too compass oriented, but on my screen, West is on my right hand side, but using these robot directions, West would have to be East, and of course, East would have to be West.

That doesn't HELP!

Adak

If your monitor is a map, then North is always at the top.

Quzah.

Originally Posted by Adak

My point is that when you can use the user's input directly, it makes it easier to program if you do use it.

No it doesn't. You still have to reference the heading. Oh, heading by way of definition relates to a compass:

head‧ing [hed-ing] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. something that serves as a head, top, or front.
2. a title or caption of a page, chapter, etc.
3. a section of the subject of a discourse; a main division of a topic or theme.
4. the compass direction toward which a traveler or vehicle is or should be moving; course.
5. an active underground mining excavation in the earth, as a drift or raise being or about to be driven.
6. Aeronautics. the angle between the axis from front to rear of an aircraft and some reference line, as magnetic north.

But since you've got so much map experience, I expect you know that already. *snicker*

But back on topic, you're telling the robot to do one of four things. Not "go north", but rather "turn right", move foreward, etc. You still have to figure out what, with comparison to your grid (that's the array; oh, and I have 25 years experience with graph paper ... now I'm just mocking you, in case you're not catching on to the fact) do you need to do. Do you need to figure out what axis gets incremented or decremented. Compass points work nicely for this.

But hey, if you think you can do better, then do so. And I'll wager you still end up using compass points, even if you choose not to call them "NORTH".


Quzah.

Originally Posted by Adak

Not really. the robot only travels, forward. So my MakeMove functions uses int's for Up, Down, Left, and Right directions, only.

Up - North, Down - South ... Like I said, you may not call them "North", but you are using the same thing. To prove it, you are facing "down". Turn left. I am facing south. Turn left. It's the same exact thing.

To further the point, yours is less intuitive, in that, the instructions say "turn left", "turn right". They don't say "face left" or "face right", because then you'd need "face up" and "face down".

And finally, you still have to caluculate the turn. What makes more sense:

Facing west, turn left.

Facing left, turn left.

You don't face left. You face a compass direction. You turn left, or you turn right. You don't face left or face right.


Quzah.

Originally Posted by Adak

You're NOT a Sokoban player!!

Originally Posted by Adak

I've done more left face, right face, and about face turns than you can ever imagine.

Obviously you've never met an ostrich.


Quzah.