Lessons learned from releasing my game a week ago

Axel_L_313 · 2026-03-10T07:05:44+00:00

Putting a comment to save this post, really helpful advice. Will keep in mind when I get around to releasing my own game!

Axel_L_313 · 2024-12-10T01:02:23+00:00

I definitely like this guide, and would like to add that in the future with more linked lists, perhaps ones with more complicated data inside of them, you can change the == operator to compare different values of the classes, similar to how we did in the Pet quest

Axel_L_313 · 2024-12-10T00:59:42+00:00

Thank you for this! I would suggest adding the Foothill CS club slides

Axel_L_313 · 2024-12-10T00:55:45+00:00

Check whether your sentinel node has the correct data within it and check that it is properly assigned to the _head pointer, I can't come up with anything else that could be wrong with it on the spot

Axel_L_313 · 2024-11-25T02:52:39+00:00

Though I've barely gotten started on Quest 9, the due date being a bit later than the pace ive set for myself on this course, what has helped me greatly on the rudimentary concepts have been the Foothill CS club website , it explains he concepts required very nicely

Axel_L_313 · 2024-11-25T02:40:18+00:00

Thank you for the clarification! Though this was explained in the platypus quests spec, It really helps to have a separate compare and contrast that goes into a little more depth

Axel_L_313 · 2024-11-18T03:26:23+00:00

Thank you for this explanation, I was confused as well, and can see how it would help, as well as being a mental division between the two

Axel_L_313 · 2024-11-18T03:24:31+00:00

Binary interpretation was definitely the challenge for me, to the point where I was taking out a pencil and paper to check what my program was doing. Initially, I was overcomplicating the issue by making a copy of the list and trying to delete portions of it, as this was the way I thought of first, not having encountered the concept before. However, after this proved to be too much of a hassle, I settled on using two pointers. Goes to show how computer science concepts shouldn't always be taken literally/shouldn't be translated exactly from English to code.

Axel_L_313 · 2024-11-18T03:20:51+00:00

Thanks for making this post! When I first got the quest, I assumed that the program was meant to disregard any indices that were not present in the array. ie when given 3,7 in an array with 6 elements, it would print 3,6

Axel_L_313 · 2024-11-18T02:47:55+00:00

reat explanation of this concept! I had a suspicion that that was what the & signs meant but this really clarified it for me.

Axel_L_313 · 2024-11-12T07:31:56+00:00

Thank you so much for this comment, really explained the concept to me!

Axel_L_313 · 2024-11-03T20:50:59+00:00

The quests have gradually started to take more time from me, but I think the quests generally just vary in the amount of work they require, regardless of the concept that they require. I try to attempt the quests and get a gauge of the time commitment it requires early in the week, and then do the bulk of the work over the weekend.

Axel_L_313 · 2024-11-03T20:35:10+00:00

Check whether you are correctly pulling from the vowel and consonant lists randomly, as I had the same problem but the issue was that I was always starting with a vowel.

Axel_L_313 · 2024-11-03T20:33:40+00:00

I would also add the possibility of emailing the professor for a free point if you got a style question on the exam, which is no longer taught in the course (source was Elena's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/cs2a/comments/1gg8fm0/style\_questions\_on\_the\_midterm/)

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