100 Days of Code Day 59-61
Well, it happened again. I didn’t have too much time over the weekend. I did have more than usual, but unfortunately the exercism.org exercises took far more time than I had available. In fact I only got one each done each day.
- Alphametics – Guess how letters map to digits to make sums with words be mathematically consistent. I got a solution without too much trouble, but once again exercism decided it was too slow. So I thrashed about trying to make it faster. It didn’t help. Tried reading community solutions but they were too confusing to be of much help. The thing was really slowing down when I had a lot of terms to process. I finally figured out that since that probably requires larger numbers to make the sum balanced I tried replacing characters going from 9 to 0 instead of 0 to 9 and suddenly it was fast enough. I mean it wasn’t that slow in the first place, maybe 35 seconds.
- Connect – A strange board game on a hex grid, x tries to go left to right along adjacent cells and 0 does the same but top to bottom. I must have had a brain fog because I make way too many mistakes.
- Bowling – Today’s exercise. This was marked hard but I had a much easier time with this than the other two. I feel I may need a bit of a rest so that’s it on exercism for the day.
I think I still need to whittle off five more exercises to get down to one per day. On the plus side, I guess that was the fifth hard exercise so I got another trophy.
Ok, so on the gameboy front, I guess I am not super motivated for the Super Gameboy chapter. I saw that LazyDevs did another video where made a program that let him walk all around the original Pokemon maps. I would kind of like to do something similar. Should I push through on Super Gameboy or switch to that?
Anyway I resumed the super gameboy chapter for now. My first example program didn’t go so hot. I think I need to go to the next then come back and see if things get better.
I am getting just gameboy colors in super gameboy mode and I am pretty sure that is supposed to be purple, blue and other colors. I did a diff, and I downloaded the authors image files but no joy. I even noticed an extra linker flag but it is stubbornly just in green/black.