Thread: No Time To Deal With The Assigment

Dear members,

I really need your help in something.. I have a Java Project for tmrw and I really dont have time to do it... It is some simple code that , i guess, more than half of you have it.. can you help me?



Implement the queen’s problem:

• The program should ask the user to enter a number n >=4
• Then the program should place n queens on an n x n board with no queen attacking any of the others
• You must use a stack (as described in the slides) to implement
• Your program should show the following out put:
o A list of the positions to be filled
o A drawing (use an applet or application) showing the n x n board with n positions filled (draw anything in the positions, a circle, change color, or anything that indicates that the position is filled)

Originally Posted by Vins25

I really dont have time to do it

In that case take the F that you deserve!

Originally Posted by Vins25

Dear members,

I really need your help in something.. I have a Java Project for tmrw and I really dont have time to do it... It is some simple code that , i guess, more than half of you have it.. can you help me?



Implement the queen’s problem:

• The program should ask the user to enter a number n >=4
• Then the program should place n queens on an n x n board with no queen attacking any of the others
• You must use a stack (as described in the slides) to implement
• Your program should show the following out put:
o A list of the positions to be filled
o A drawing (use an applet or application) showing the n x n board with n positions filled (draw anything in the positions, a circle, change color, or anything that indicates that the position is filled)

Ironically, as you've broke down the problem you're trying to solve into logical steps, you've already solved half of the problem.

Oh to be a modern programmer.

Regards,

Shaun.

Originally Posted by KevinWorkman

?

lol - I just noticed on my course how these IT whizz-kids suddenly realise that programming isn't just drag-and-drop, using wizards and so on, and it's an actual skill-set that you have to learn.

Regards,

Shaun.

Originally Posted by KevinWorkman

True that yo. I've seen waaay too many "copy-paste" programmers. It hurts my brain. I actually sat and watched a kid "program" by copying and pasting EVERYTHING- and I mean everything. He could not declare a variable without looking it up and copy-pasting it from somewhere else. It was so slow and aggravating. We were seniors in college. Terrifying.

A friend of mine does debugging for his company, so if anyone has problems with their program, they take it to him. He had one guy come to him with a problem, and when he looked at the program, all of the comments were in Polish. He said, "I think you should learn how to speak Polish! Or, don't be lazy in future by copying and pasting code from someone else." It made me laugh!

I'm glad I learnt programming in the 1980s :-D

Regards,

Shaun.

Originally Posted by KevinWorkman

Oh don't hate on all of us new guys (I'm 25). Some of us are okay, I promise! But yeah, it seems that computer science and programming used to attract people who were genuinely interested in the subject, so they actually wanted to work and learn because it was fun to them.

Actually, there are a couple of guys who are really good on the course I'm on, especially those 'immigrant' students from Poland or Slovakia. All-but-one of the people to drop out or not pass the first year of the course would describe themselves as British, sad but true! But it's meant that the guys who want to learn the Science behind computing are still on the course, and they're a good bunch really. All much younger than I.

By the way, I went to study Social Sciences when I left school; I'm retraining just because I loved programming as a child, well I still do now I've reacquainted myself.

But now it's as if computer science and programming attract a lot of lazy people who think either A- "I hear there's a lot of money in programming, so I guess I'll do that", B- "I like video games, so that means I should be a programmer" or C- "I'm going to build the next facebook and be a millionaire in a year, screw this hello world stuff". It's aggravating, especially as somebody who loves programming, surrounded by peers just trying to do the least amount of work to get a C.

Yeah, those sort of people dropped out of the first year, because it was too difficult for them.

And universities cater to it- they really just want to get enrollment numbers up so they can get more money. To keep their numbers up, they can't fail people out who deserve it. So the university is happy as long as there are people in the seats, even though the school is rolling out lackluster graduates.

Probably, I can only go by what I've done. As soon as the bar starts to raise (OO, Inheritance etc...), then you know who's capable and who isn't.

But I don't know, maybe that's always been the case. Or maybe it's true of all subjects (do art majors complain that the major is becoming lazier?). And I have an admittedly United States-centric viewpoint, so it might be different other places.

Anyway, I digress. This is a sore subject for me, can you tell?

Hmm... I think the problems started when you no longer switched on a computer to be greeted by a 'READY.' or 'OK.' prompt, and when relatively sophisticated hardware had its' keyboard removed (Sega Genesis/MegaDrive etc...) As soon as consumer-grade products made this leap, people stopped learning how to program for fun.

Regards,

Shaun.

After reading this conversation I'm trying to determine if I have a future in programming haha.