Problem Solving

Tick Tac Toe Game

The Tic Tac Toe game itself brings some simple problems
As a new programmer how would you go about solving it and or creating a game out of thin air? At least those were my Ideas.
Obviously My simple solution was and probably still is was to open source, or copy the code from somewhere.
But, that still dosent solve the issue, still not being a programmer just a script kiddy.

It is called the blank screen
Writers Call this the Writers Block

Solution

Think of the Structure of the game.
How do you know when its a win?
Obviously, a match across a row, diagnal, down a column.
Now the wheels are spinning, for every one way of winning you could make a function
function() row
function() diagnal
function() column

Alright, Now what?

Now you are gonna cycle through the game, and how do we cycle in programming?
Loops, While Loops, and all the loops that you can think of.
What are you gonna loop?

The State of the game

Then your gonna throw some arrays if you are new to programming in other languges they are called list, and
some conditinals in the mix...
else... else if... if else... utill you create a perfect cocktail of a program.
The list or array is used to keep track of the state and temporary state of your program... aka
The Secrets of the Universe

The Point?

The point is not to give you the entire recipe on how to code the game.
The point is to understand the structure and how things work in real time and then translate them into code.
I understand this might be trivial to Season Programmers, however...
I wich someone would have told me this when I was learning.

Here are some tools that you can add to your tool-box of thinking Skills, and use them through-out your programming jorney.

You might use only one or two or a combination of all three, However I believe these are the building blocks to Programming

Permutations

Cracking The Combination

Here is a combination of 3 digits

I know this is already collage matrial, but I believe that this should be taught In high school and or should be common knowldege.

This is actually a type of mathamatics called Descreet Math, It is a collage course that is taught to engineers.

I am a self taught programmer, never had a real life teacher standing over my shoulder and showing me flow charts on how things work, and creating lesson plans.
Pretty much I had to figure it all out with my own reasearch. And ask plenty of questions here on sololern of course.
Who cares right? just get back to the content.

That is all, this is one of the main engines, behind cracking the code programs
Do your own reasearch, that is your best friend
I can only show you the door,
You have to walk through it.

Spread Sheets

Using spread sheets is a very simple way of breaking down things.
There are many different names for spreadsheets. I say this because, I used to get lost in all the names, however, they all have similer functions.
The diffrent names are but not limited to: spread sheets, histograms, matricks, tablature...
The following codes use spread sheets. You must understand how the spread sheet works and how to intrped the data.
Code: Findinig The Common Sequence
Code: The Knap Sack Problem
That is gonna require some reasearsh on your part
Good Luck, and hope you have a good Journey in programming, remember

Stay Calm & Code On

Cracking The Code - Thinking Like A Programmer - Tabs