[Kde-games-devel] Review Request 114845: [knavalbattle] utilties for the several ships patch

[Roney Gomes]

> On Jan. 15, 2014, 11:52 a.m., Roney Gomes wrote:
> > src/battlefield.cpp, line 213
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/114845/diff/2/?file=229803#file229803line213>
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> >     I see here that you're testing for both horizontal and vertical availability, which -- once again -- could also be split into smaller methods. One for each case.
> >     
> >     You also decided to check horizontal availability first. Any reason for this or the order doesn't matter at all?
> >     
> >     How the AI would know in which direction it should place the new ship?
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> Jaime Torres Amate wrote:
>     Q: Any reason for this or the order doesn't matter at all?  
>     A: the order doesn't matter at all. Both horizontal and vertical must be checked. A ship can not be placed if there is not enough horizontal nor vertical space. 
>     
>     The method, as it is now, can be divided in two smaller methods (one for vertical and one for horizontal) reading two times the matrix. Or it can be done in one pass with an additional column(or row) array. The second way should be faster.

Although it is faster, the matrix isn't so big to cause any sensible variation in performance. The code is OK, I'm not asking you to change it. I'm just pointing out that I prefer code that's easy to read, and thus maintain, than optimized code whose performance improvements are not significant.


- Roney


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On Jan. 15, 2014, 6:49 p.m., Jaime Torres Amate wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 15, 2014, 6:49 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Games and Roney Gomes.
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> Repository: knavalbattle
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> Description
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> These are the tools I use to check if a ship can be placed in the board or if the user/AI should start again.
> Also, it serves me to split a big patch into smaller pieces.
> How it is done:
> * Pass the parameter allow adjacent ships also to the BattleField.
> * Implement a bool canAddShipOfSize(size). When a ship of size size can not be placed, then the AI or the player should start again (what I'm working on) or an Undo.
> * Implement a clear() to be able to start again
> * In the battleField also add another hidden board with the cells having only two status (free, busy) to be able to know the availability of the cells. It is easier for me in this way than the other way (sending a signal to clear the ship borders when the shooting starts).
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> Diffs
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>   src/battlefield.h b2f30bc 
>   src/battlefield.cpp 6467d8c 
>   src/sea.h 4af50b7 
>   src/sea.cpp 38ab8b5 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/114845/diff/
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> Testing
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> It detects the blocked boards (played much more games than I wanted to implement the restart placing ships).
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> Thanks,
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> Jaime Torres Amate
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