No Pressure, No Diamonds

I am starting to feel the heat in terms of being slightly behind my projected schedule because ideally I would have finished the TTT human vs human user story yesterday afternoon and for the evening I would have started some preliminary work on the TTT AI user story. Unfortunately, this is the reality I have to face and the most important thing to do in this situation is to adapt to the changing circumstances and be able to stay calm under pressure and focus on how to optimally spend my time. Going back to what Micah told me about time management the most urgent/highest risk user stories need to be done first and everything else can be done at a later time. Also, things like writing my blog can take a lower priority and I do not have to spend so much time in making sure it is well-written or the content amount is sufficiently large.

Challenges

• Figuring out what base test case to write for the minimax func
  • Furthermore, what **output **should the minimax func return?
  • Initial thoughts: Have it return a square - a number representing a board square
• Have to consider having a depth parameter to the minimax func
  • As the test cases get more specific/complex: Going from ***turn 9 ***to ***turn n ***where 0 <= n < 9

TIL

• compare func - (compare x y)
  • when x < y: -1
  • when x = y: 0
  • when x > y: 1
  • similar to Java’s x.compareTo(y)
  • However, it is **different **in the sense that it writes for: nil and compares numbers and collections in a **type-independent manner **

Observations

• In TDD, having a solid test is **pivotal **& esp. having a good **base case. **This is because the base case will determine how the rest of the tests will be be derived.
• Sometimes after refactoring the production code, the output of a given function can change, which in effect raises a need to refactor the tests to match the new returned values.

ToDos

• First test case: A game board that is on turn 9 - e.g. only one empty square left to play
• GetEmptyBoardSquareIndices func
  • Returns a vector of indices representing all the empty square boards for the board that is passed into the func

When all the pieces finally come together

(Write about this when I finally have the minimax func up and running…hopefully TODAY)