IPO help for major work (1 Viewer)

[G-Banger]

hey
for my SDD major work im making Connect Four.. well im currently making the Folio and there is a part where it asks bout IPO charts.. i no that IPO (input - process - output) but what exactly would i be putting down? ive asked my teacher heaps.. but i still dont understand

thanx.

ohh and should i include AI in this program.. or just have player 1 vs player 2?

thanx again

 

[Beaky]

Originally posted by G-Banger

ohh and should i include AI in this program.. or just have player 1 vs player 2?

Yes, it would impress the teacher if you could implement AI in your program. If you get a chance, in Fedora (Linux) there is a connect four program that has excellent connect 4 AI. Its in the games menu somewhere (I was playing it in UNI today).

 

[Winston]

Heh i don't understand why people even call that AI, it's not real AI, it's about the lowest form of AI possible.

 

[sunny]

it's about the lowest form of AI possible.

....which is still AI

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by sunny
....which is still AI

lol but i so swear it misleads people, they say "oh i got AI in my program" then people think, oh pssh is that AI? I mean AI is so complicated they shouldn't even call these pussy features in programs AI.

 

[sunny]

Then maybe 'automated logical reasoning' might be a better name.

 

[Winston]

hmmm but in this users case, what do you mean you're gonna incorporate AI? What sort of AI? Computer versus's User?
That's heck low AI, more like a few conditional statements throughout the code bleh ...

and in your original question it's quite blatant as it is... just go through your program and pick out some of the process's your program does, and pick a few inputs and write down the outputs of it. So for example in your case, just say the input is the user clicking something and the data is passed to a method and the method acts upon this and outputs some form of result.

 

[G-Banger]

here are some examples from my IPT chart

e.g 1
INPUT: User presses button “New Game”
PROCESS: The Game asks where the player wants it 2 players or wants to play against the computer
OUTPUT:Which ever decision is chosen

e.g 2
INPUT: IF Selecting to versus CPU
PROCESS: The cpu initializing to get ready for the game
OUTPUT: The Game is ready to start

am i on the right track?
thanx

ohh and with my algorthims how should i script the AI?

thanx

 

[G-Banger]

as im working through my assessment atm..
im thinking.. maybe i should just forget about adding the AI and just make it Player 1 vs PLayer 2 ?

cause i dont have the time

do u reckon ill lose marks if its just player 1 vs player 2 and not player 1 vs CPU?

thanx guys
sorry bout this

 

[G-Banger]

ive decided im scraping the AI idea.. im just going to make a plain Connect 4 board with player 1 vs player 2

here is a board do u guys like the interface?
thanx

 

[Winston]

Nice interface, keep it up.

 

[G-Banger]

thanx

ive added a word doc.. can u just see if im on the right track?
i think its wrong

thanx

 

[Winston]

well yea but file menu, lol nah nothing like that is needed only the major bits...

like maybe focus on the bits say.... when a row,diagonal, or column of corresponding colours is matched, player wins, and game is completed, user is then re-prompted if they would like to play again

something like that

i assume for input wise in my example, this check is done everytime a player puts a piece in.