C#•9mo ago

needing help for a console game

https://paste.mod.gg/eovangifthsv/0 in this code m is a solution i used for debugging so that it prints the point of the code it reaches, but it reaches only the m = 3 step. a person told me to use a debugging tool but i don't know what that is

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Pobiega•9mo ago

What do you code in? VS? Rider?

wolf 301•9mo ago

Pobiega•9mo ago

Pobiega•9mo ago

see that white dot? hover your mouse in that location on the line you want to pause the code at click it. it will turn red and stay there

wolf 301•9mo ago

i don't have any dot

Pobiega•9mo ago

next time you run your code in debug mode (see below) the execution of your program will pause at that location

wolf 301•9mo ago

oh now i see it

Pobiega•9mo ago

should look like this you can have as many of these as you want

wolf 301•9mo ago

if you use different dots what do they do?

Pobiega•9mo ago

same thing: the code will stop at that point

wolf 301•9mo ago

one stops the program, the others?

Pobiega•9mo ago

they all do but they dont "stop" stop it they halt it

wolf 301•9mo ago

ok gotcha

Pobiega•9mo ago

you can resume, or step stepping is SUPER POWERFUL it lets you move one statement at a time and see exactly what your code does, and what variables change to what values etc as you go

wolf 301•9mo ago

using the m i found anyway where the code stops working i just don't know what's the problem i guess it's something with the switch

Pobiega•9mo ago

your switch only has one case so uh I dont see what else it would do?

wolf 301•9mo ago

i wanted to add the second one later on

Pobiega•9mo ago

btw, I highly suggest you invert your code what you have now is unreadable as hell

wolf 301•9mo ago

it doesn't work with the first one in the first place invert? wdym?

Pobiega•9mo ago

1 sec

wolf 301•9mo ago

yeah sure

Pobiega•9mo ago

public void MovePiece(int startingColumn, int startingRow, string leftRightDirection, string upDownDirection)
    {
        if ((startingRow >= 8 || startingRow <= -1) || (startingColumn >= 8 || startingColumn <= -1))
        {
            return;
        }

        if (grid[startingRow, startingColumn] == 0)
        {
            return;
        }

        if ((!player1turn || (grid[startingRow, startingColumn] <= 0)) &&
            (player1turn || (grid[startingRow, startingColumn] >= 0)))
        {
            return;
        }

        switch (Math.Abs(grid[startingRow, startingColumn]))
        {
    
            case 1:
                if (grid[startingRow, startingColumn] < 0)
                {
                    if (leftRightDirection == "Right" && startingColumn < 7)
                    {
                        grid[startingRow - 1, startingColumn + 1] = grid[startingRow, startingColumn];
                        grid[startingRow, startingColumn] = 0;
                    }
                    else if (leftRightDirection == "Left" && startingColumn > 0)
                    {
                        grid[startingRow - 1, startingColumn - 1] = grid[startingRow, startingColumn];
                        grid[startingRow, startingColumn] = 0;
                    }
                }
                break;
        }
    }

public void MovePiece(int startingColumn, int startingRow, string leftRightDirection, string upDownDirection)
    {
        if ((startingRow >= 8 || startingRow <= -1) || (startingColumn >= 8 || startingColumn <= -1))
        {
            return;
        }

        if (grid[startingRow, startingColumn] == 0)
        {
            return;
        }

        if ((!player1turn || (grid[startingRow, startingColumn] <= 0)) &&
            (player1turn || (grid[startingRow, startingColumn] >= 0)))
        {
            return;
        }

        switch (Math.Abs(grid[startingRow, startingColumn]))
        {
    
            case 1:
                if (grid[startingRow, startingColumn] < 0)
                {
                    if (leftRightDirection == "Right" && startingColumn < 7)
                    {
                        grid[startingRow - 1, startingColumn + 1] = grid[startingRow, startingColumn];
                        grid[startingRow, startingColumn] = 0;
                    }
                    else if (leftRightDirection == "Left" && startingColumn > 0)
                    {
                        grid[startingRow - 1, startingColumn - 1] = grid[startingRow, startingColumn];
                        grid[startingRow, startingColumn] = 0;
                    }
                }
                break;
        }
    }

instead of nesting 3 ifs, you can just invert the if and return this keeps indentation levels down and makes it easier to see whats going on

wolf 301•9mo ago

why should you return nothing?

Pobiega•9mo ago

it stops the method look at your current code, this does the exact same thing except it doesnt have 4 levels of nested ifs

wolf 301•9mo ago

okk ty i’ll study this

Pobiega•9mo ago

good as for why your code doesnt work.. use the debugger to go through the execution and see where it goes the wrong way

wolf 301•9mo ago

okk thank you dude also, what’s “indendation levels”? i am not british/american as you can guess

Pobiega•9mo ago

these vertical lines indicate an indentation level it gets really hard to read code when its ~10 levels indented

wolf 301•9mo ago

makes sense, thank you again so basically if those conditions are not satisfied the code stops, if instead they do the code runs the last statement

Pobiega•9mo ago

yeah, code is very straight forward it will do what you ask. so if you instead of saying...

if a
  if b
    if c
      if d

if a
  if b
    if c
      if d

you can say

if not a: stop
if not b: stop
if not c: stop
if not d: stop

if not a: stop
if not b: stop
if not c: stop
if not d: stop

wolf 301•9mo ago

gotcha seems much better @Pobiega after debugging i found out that the value of the element in the array becomes 0 before the switch statement i don't get how tho

wolf 301•9mo ago

https://paste.mod.gg/vsipyolkpise/0 i stopped the code after every console.writeline function in the MovePiece() function

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wolf 301•9mo ago

using "1" and "7" as the column index and row index this is the output 10101010 01010101 10101010 00000000 00000000 0-10-10-10-1 -10-10-10-10 0-10-10-10-1 1 1 0 10101010 01010101 10101010 00000000 00000000 0-10-10-10-1 -10-10-10-10 0-10-10-10-1 and you can see it's 1 two times and then it becomes 0

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