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Nebula
06-13-2006, 12:00 AM
Well, I just stumbled over the GameDev course description page (random web surfing and Facebook are consuming my life these days), and it seems a project was added to it today (judging by the word file timestamp). Anyhoo, question on it for Dan (who authored the file):

The specs call for reading for input from a file. Does the layout for that file need to be in a specific format, or can it be our call? I'm guessing it can, since it wasn't specified, but I just want to check. Seems like something you'd want to be standardized to me.

Also, fish tank demo? You didn't get your inspiration from the AP Computer Science material (http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/compsci_a/case.html?compscia), did you? Just when I thought I was done with all that crap... :P

EDIT: Senior Member, I feel like a tool, lol.
MarkDiehr
06-14-2006, 03:08 AM
It looks to me like you may choose a format that works best with your program, though it has to have the following information:

o Dimensions of the fish tank
o Number of fish
o Starting location of each fish
o The type of each fish
Nebula
06-19-2006, 02:56 AM
It looks to me like you may choose a format that works best with your program, though it has to have the following information:

o Dimensions of the fish tank
o Number of fish
o Starting location of each fish
o The type of each fish

Sounds good. I ended up finishing the program that night anyways, because I'm silly and don't really like sleep that much. Nothing quite like cozying up with a SSH terminal, GCC and nano for a few hours.

Also, how is it that I've got a higher forum rank than the camp coordinator? You should get that fixed. ;)
nslottow
07-05-2006, 03:27 AM
Hello, I've got a few questions about this project:

I was wondering... can the number of fish be implicitly included in the file parsing or do we actually need a number to specify?

Is this assignment/test in addition to a sample program we should submit?

Where or to whom should we submit these program(s) if we need to at all?

That's about it.
Thanks
MarkDiehr
07-13-2006, 03:30 PM
You can send them to me at mdiehr@umich.edu. Put Camp CAEN in the subject somewhere. This program is the same as the sample program, so it's the only thing you need to submit.

You can do the file parsing however you like as long as all of the required information gets from the file to your program.