Write detailed instructions on how to play a game of Battleship. Compose these instructions as if they were written for a computer interacting with a human.
After completing this assignment, you should...
- Gain an understanding of the specificity needed while instructing computers.
- Appreciate the inherent complexities in real-world activities (that is, we do more things without thinking about them than we realize).
After completing this assignment, you should be able to effectively...
- Identify when the broad notions of "if" and "while" come into play in real-world activities (like playing a game of battleship).
- Write documentation in Markdown.
- Create gists.
- A gist containing one file called
battleship.md.
Write detailed instructions on how to play a game of Battleship. Compose these instructions as if they were written for a computer interacting with a human. For example, one possible instruction is "Ask the human player for his/her next shot." Or, if you're feeling like a rather malicious computer: "Ask the weak human scum for its next shot. Laugh at its ignorance. Plot takeover of the world."
(Just kidding. Don't do that last one.)
Use the Hasbro instructions for details. You can ignore the section on the SALVO variant of the game (for now... mwah ha ha).
You will be using these instructions to write a program later this weekend, and they will work as a map for you while learning during the next few days. Once you have written these instructions, go to https://gist.github.com/ and paste them into a file there. Name the file "battleship.md" and e-mail a link to your instructor.
In addition, write instructions for the SALVO version of the game. Submit this as a second file called salvo.md.
- If you want the history, read Wikipedia's entry on Battleship