ships

Battle of the ships (simple version)

Description

Pc build a black table 10x10 with 3 white positions: first position is a ship of one element, second and third position are a ship of two elements. Ships aren’t sticky, near ships there is sea (black elements). You can play with you, best winner to go out with 3 bombs. Happy pasttime!

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.1 (R12.1)

[John D'Errico]

Gosh, if this actually had help, and a better interface, I'd be tempted to rate it a bit higher. Marco should be impressed with my 2 rating here. The web site description is (shock!) nearly readable.

Use of an interface where the user must respond to multiple prompts at the command line is poor in general.

The complete lack of help or any useful comments should push my rating to a 1, so maybe I've gone soft.

[Marco Pittaluga]

olèèèèèèèèèèèèèè... 2 stars from John... incredibbbbbbble... temperature is very hot... you must be in the sun... next time 3 :) thanks... bye

[Ken Eaton]

Just like John, I'm a bit torn between giving a 1 or a 2. On the one hand, my expectations of Marco have been so low that this is quite a surprise: it's a function (not a script), the description is halfway comprehensible, and the game may actually be interesting to some people. Compared to his previous submissions, this would get a 2.

However, I feel like I must rate this objectively, as I would any function from any author, without consideration of their previous work. In this case, I have to give it a 1 for the following reasons:

1) No H1 line or help comment block.

2) Some of the computation is very messy, with a lot of if/else statements. I have to think there is a more space-saving and elegant way to do things.

3) It may be a pet peeve of mine, but when it comes to games for MATLAB I think they should NEVER be run from the command line, only from a GUI. Running them from the command line means they are monopolizing control of the command window, keeping users from working on other things while they have the game open. Ideally, the game should exist in it's own figure window(s), never "damaging" the command window (either by clearing variables or plotting over other figures) and vice versa (insulated from 'clear (fill in blank)' commands).

4) There is already a battleship game on the FEX, and even though it is over 4 years old it is much better than this one (although still not perfect).

Good try though, Marco. It's always nice to see improvement.

Ken

[Will Rusch]

Not good.

[alain boyer]

 

[Hal 9000]

 

[M P]

 

[V. Poor]

Poor, very very poor.

[pitta]

 

[Jveer]

 

[James]

 

[C]

 

[Ripley]

 

[Bishop]

 

[newt]

 

[Hudson]