Hi Martin,
on 14.11.2015 we took part in the global day of Coderetreat.
We had several programming languages, even ABAP.
Short answer: Yes it works.
In detail:
As well as in other languages "Coderetreat" is a great way to approach things differently and to try new things.
Of course, due to the short sessions (1-2 hours) you do not get a final Version with full functionality.
Therefore, we have locked us away for two days in a small room in the basement and created a final version of ABAP Conway's Game of live,
which in my opinion does not need to hide...
We had different approaches. In the end we have focused us on the most flexible solution.
We store the X and Y coordinates of dead and living cells.
Of course we could also "just" store the living cells, however we decided to store the state.
In case of extension, for example a Rock, we will be more flexible.
We have outsourced the logic of patterns (Blinker, Glider, Heavy-Weight-Spaceship, etc.)
in an abstract parent class (ZCL_CGOL_PATTERN).
So we can very easily create as many (child) patterns as we want (ZCL_CGOL_RANDOM_PATTERN, ZCL_CGOL_BLINKER_PATTERN, ZCL_CGOL_GLEITER_PATTERN, ZCL_CGOL_SEGLER_PATTERN).
The cell-class (ZCL_CGOL_CELL) is also covered by unit tests with 100% coverage
The amazing thing is that even with complex logic our entire code has (without comments and blank lines) under 1000 lines! 🙂
Of course we want to share the results with the abap community.
It is atteched at this posting.
Greetings from sunny Weinsberg,
Henry Bogner & Sebastian Engel
(Kaufland Informationssysteme HQ)
- SAP Managed Tags:
Hi Martin,
on 14.11.2015 we took part in the global day of Coderetreat.
We had several programming languages, even ABAP.
Short answer: Yes it works.
In detail:
As well as in other languages "Coderetreat" is a great way to approach things differently and to try new things.
Of course, due to the short sessions (1-2 hours) you do not get a final Version with full functionality.
Therefore, we have locked us away for two days in a small room in the basement and created a final version of ABAP Conway's Game of live,
which in my opinion does not need to hide...
We had different approaches. In the end we have focused us on the most flexible solution.
We store the X and Y coordinates of dead and living cells.
Of course we could also "just" store the living cells, however we decided to store the state.
In case of extension, for example a Rock, we will be more flexible.
We have outsourced the logic of patterns (Blinker, Glider, Heavy-Weight-Spaceship, etc.)
in an abstract parent class (ZCL_CGOL_PATTERN).
So we can very easily create as many (child) patterns as we want (ZCL_CGOL_RANDOM_PATTERN, ZCL_CGOL_BLINKER_PATTERN, ZCL_CGOL_GLEITER_PATTERN, ZCL_CGOL_SEGLER_PATTERN).
The cell-class (ZCL_CGOL_CELL) is also covered by unit tests with 100% coverage
The amazing thing is that even with complex logic our entire code has (without comments and blank lines) under 1000 lines! 🙂
Of course we want to share the results with the abap community.
It is atteched at this posting.
Greetings from sunny Weinsberg,
Henry Bogner & Sebastian Engel
(Kaufland Informationssysteme HQ)
- SAP Managed Tags:
