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Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess)

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Tim Golden writes:
> On 15/02/2013 13:11, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> > On 15 February 2013 11:36, Tim Golden wrote:
> >> And the "how shall we represent the board?" question is pretty
> >> much the first thing any team asks themselves. And you always get
> >> someone in favour of lists of lists, someone for one long list,
> > 
> > I always get confused when doing this about which of my
> > coordinates needs to be multiplied (i.e. whether I am in Fortran
> > or C order).
> 
> How true. This last time, my team split into two: one half to handle
> the display, the other working on the algorithm. We ended up having
> to draw a really simple diagram on the back of an envelope with the
> x,y pairs written out and pass it back and forth as *everyone* kept
> forgetting which went first.

Surely you knew to have f1(board, x, y) for getting whatever is at
(x,y) and f2(store, x, y, wev) for putting wev at (x,y). Why didn't
you do that?

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First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 23:25 +0000
  Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 23:55 +0000
    Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 01:31 +0000
  Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-02-13 22:05 -0800
    Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 17:48 +0000
      Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 11:30 -0700
      Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-02-18 20:15 -0800
        Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-19 06:24 +0000
        Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 12:41 -0700
  Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) jkn <jkn_gg@nicorp.f9.co.uk> - 2013-02-14 13:14 -0800
    Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 22:13 +0000
      Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-02-14 22:09 -0500
  Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 21:05 -0800
  Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-15 11:22 +0000
    Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-02-15 16:17 +0000
      Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-02-15 17:52 +0000
        Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-02-19 21:10 +0000
      Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Matt Jones <matt.walker.jones@gmail.com> - 2013-02-15 12:03 -0600
  Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-02-15 11:36 +0000
  Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-15 13:11 +0000
  Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-02-15 15:36 +0000
    Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-02-15 18:48 +0200
  Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-16 02:49 +1100
  Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-02-15 17:37 +0000
  Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-02-15 13:41 -0500
  Re: First attempt at a Python prog (Chess) Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-16 14:39 +0000

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