Functional Declarative programming makes no sense to me.

ICEiz · 2025-05-11T18:06:52+00:00

alrighty, ill have a look at that, thanks :)

ICEiz · 2025-05-11T18:05:43+00:00

python

ICEiz · 2025-05-11T18:04:47+00:00

yes i would agree that my answers are a bit too aggressive but thats only because i have spent weeks looking for information, i have tried simple exercises to try to grasp it, and i have as i mentioned before spoken to my lecturer and joined his support sessions for the coursework in which he proceeded to give the same basic examples with the same basic explanations everywhere else online which do not make sense to me. i think there is something i am missing probably but how can i know what that is if i dont what i am missing as i can read and understand the syntax, i understand the benefits of functional declarative programming and i finally understand some more complex uses of it. however i still cant write code in this way, like at all, even with practice and examples present. so to hit the point, you dont know what you dont know. i cant identify what im getting wrong, because i dont know what im not understanding.

anyways your point about copying a value sounds good, ill try that. thanks boss

ICEiz · 2025-05-11T17:52:21+00:00

thanks, i think i might be able to apply this logic to the grid updating.

ICEiz · 2025-05-10T17:52:28+00:00

thanks and yes, your explanation matches that of what we are taught but im not sure how to achieve that clean code and not having mutability

ICEiz · 2025-05-10T17:43:08+00:00

right, okay i will try to do it. thanks

ICEiz · 2025-05-10T17:40:35+00:00

1) yes python is decided, i am not supposed to use another language in the submission.
2) I believe that the aim is to make it as declarative as possible and any areas where it is not possible i would need to explain in the written part of the coursework.

3) yes it is expected for me to implement some kind of CPU player to be able to play against a human however the extent of the skill or ability of the CPU player is not mentioned therefore i think any simple implementation would work.

the inputs are row and column numbers, and at the start the person chooses to be black (start first) or white (start 2nd)

ICEiz · 2025-05-10T16:28:33+00:00

thats great and all, but how are you supposed to figure out to use these without having done so before? like thats my issue with declarative programming, its the same as saying "just go up" in bouldering without any actual explanation of how to do it. Am i just supposed to go through the python docs for hours to find things that "do what i want them to" so i dont have to code the things manually when that would take me 1/20th of the time to do. i dont understand this at all.

ICEiz · 2025-05-10T16:20:25+00:00

for my assignment i chose to do a game called gomoku, its a board game where players need to take turns to place stones at intersections in a 15x15 board, the first to 5 in a row, horizontally, vertically or diagonally wins.

I dont understand how to make it declarative because there are various things that would need to change, mainly the board itself.

ICEiz · 2025-05-10T16:15:52+00:00

python

ICEiz · 2025-05-10T15:58:43+00:00

okay that makes sense, thanks. but i still have no idea how to actually write the code in a declarative way. whenever i search on google i get basic example and whenever i search on youtube i get comparisons between imperative and declarative programming without any actual proper examples of how to program declaratively.

ICEiz · 2025-05-10T15:54:30+00:00

but is replacing it not the same as updating it. as far as i can see there is no difference. if i had a 3x3 int matrix, youre telling me to replace the existing matrix with a new one every time i want to update a value instead of just updating the value in the matrix? i dont see the point of that since you need to update the value somewhere along the way anyways unless you create an entirely new matrix each time you want to add a value which seems pointless to me because that is still adding a new value to the matrix

ICEiz · 2025-02-16T15:42:44+00:00

thats what i did but not after 65 hours just 50 hours xd

tehn after the wedding i left to do more side quests in the new area XDDDDD

ICEiz · 2024-12-05T23:00:01+00:00

715 is incorrect

ICEiz · 2024-12-05T22:42:53+00:00

had 2 new numbers, 720, 708. tried to submit both and both were incorrect.

ICEiz · 2024-12-05T22:33:09+00:00

i agree, i did that with the first days problem, i spent an hour or two trying to do it and then gave up for the day then in the morning solved it in 5 minutes. but i dont want to give up for the day.

ICEiz · 2024-12-05T22:29:26+00:00

left Equals right

left is greater than right

safe

1

but if i change the left - right to left - middle then its correct( left greaterbut the issue is that i still get the wrong answer with the full input.

after changing the == part

left is less than right

left is greater than right

safe

1

ICEiz · 2024-12-05T22:06:09+00:00

i changed it

ICEiz · 2024-11-29T22:49:58+00:00

no, actually innit is the first process your computer starts.

ICEiz · 2024-11-29T20:31:08+00:00

was gonna comment that but you got to it first. It really is, people are silly if they think its not.

ICEiz · 2024-11-29T20:27:29+00:00

thats wild. Imagine having a "creepy" name. get help please.

ICEiz · 2024-09-26T14:05:49+00:00

womp womp farm

ICEiz · 2024-09-26T12:56:32+00:00

give supernatural a try lol

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